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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

卷起

juǎnqǐ

to roll up

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to roll up

02

to curl up

03

(of dust etc) to swirl up

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 卷起 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 卷起 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

卷起你的袖子。juǎn qǐ nǐ de xiù zi。

Roll up your sleeves.

卷起你右边的袖子。juǎn qǐ nǐ yòu biān de xiù zi。

Roll up your right sleeve.

汤姆卷起裤管,露出鲜红的袜子。tāng mǔ juǎn qǐ kù guǎn, lù chū xiān hóng de wà zi。

Tom rolled up his trouser legs, making his bright red socks visible.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 卷起.

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

Directly before

  • 汤姆卷起2
  • 我卷起1

Directly after

  • 卷起你2
  • 卷起袖子1
  • 卷起了1
  • 卷起裤管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 卷起

What does 卷起 mean in Chinese?

卷起 (juǎnqǐ) means to roll up.

How do you pronounce 卷起?

卷起 is pronounced juǎnqǐ.

Is 卷起 an HSK word?

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

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