The movie was less funny than the book.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
原著
original work (not translation or abridged)
IN A VIDEO原著
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
original work (not translation or abridged)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 原著 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 原著 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 原著.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 原著.
Directly before
- 不如原著1
- 跟原著1
Directly after
- 原著好看1
- 原著差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 原著
What does 原著 mean in Chinese?
原著 (yuánzhù) means original work (not translation or abridged).
How do you pronounce 原著?
原著 is pronounced yuánzhù.
Is 原著 an HSK word?
原著 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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