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县城

xiànchéng

county seat; county town

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

county seat; county town

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 县城 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 县城 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

曾经在县城里作恶多端的土匪今日终于被警方捕获,当地民众喜大普奔 !céng jīng zài xiàn chéng lǐ zuò è duō duān de tǔ fěi jīn rì zhōng yú bèi jǐng fāng bǔ huò, dāng dì mín zhòng xǐ dà pǔ bēn!

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县城的冬天是非常萧瑟的,灰扑扑的平房,褐色的枯树,背阳的地上落下没化干净的残雪。xiàn chéng de dōng tiān shì fēi cháng xiāo sè de, huī pū pū de píng fáng, hè sè de kū shù, bèi yáng de dì shàng là xià méi huà gān jìng de cán xuě。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 县城.

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

Directly before

  • 在县城1

Directly after

  • 县城的1
  • 县城里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 县城

What does 县城 mean in Chinese?

县城 (xiànchéng) means county seat; county town.

How do you pronounce 县城?

县城 is pronounced xiànchéng.

Is 县城 an HSK word?

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

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