Who invented karaoke?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
卡拉
karaoke
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
karaoke
02
(Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 卡拉 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 卡拉 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Karaoke is good for reducing stress.
Caracas is the capital of Venezuela.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 卡拉.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 卡拉.
Directly before
- 唱卡拉2
- 麽卡拉1
- 去卡拉1
- 在卡拉1
Directly after
- 卡拉卡斯1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 卡拉
What does 卡拉 mean in Chinese?
卡拉 (kǎlā) means karaoke.
How do you pronounce 卡拉?
卡拉 is pronounced kǎlā.
Is 卡拉 an HSK word?
卡拉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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