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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

即兴

jíxìng

improvisation (in the arts)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

improvisation (in the arts)

02

impromptu

03

extemporaneous

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 即兴 actually appears in real sentences.

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他们的台词大部分都是即兴发挥的。tā men de tái cí dà bù fèn dōu shì jí xìng fā huī de。

They improvised most of their lines.

意大利即兴喜剧是一种戴面具的十六世纪戏剧。yì dà lì jí xìng xǐ jù shì yī zhǒng dài miàn jù de shí liù shì jì xì jù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 即兴.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 即兴.

Directly before

  • 意大利即兴1
  • 是即兴1

Directly after

  • 即兴喜剧1
  • 即兴发挥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 即兴

What does 即兴 mean in Chinese?

即兴 (jíxìng) means improvisation (in the arts).

How do you pronounce 即兴?

即兴 is pronounced jíxìng.

Is 即兴 an HSK word?

即兴 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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