Stop grumbling.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发牢骚
to whine
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to whine
02
to be grouchy
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发牢骚 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发牢骚 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom complains all the time.
Actions speak louder than words. Stop complaining and do it.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发牢骚.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发牢骚.
Directly before
- 别发牢骚1
- 老是发牢骚1
- 停止发牢骚1
Directly after
- 发牢骚多1
- 发牢骚吧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 发牢骚
What does 发牢骚 mean in Chinese?
发牢骚 (fāláosāo) means to whine.
How do you pronounce 发牢骚?
发牢骚 is pronounced fāláosāo.
Is 发牢骚 an HSK word?
发牢骚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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