Now it's your serve.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发球
(tennis etc) to serve
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(tennis etc) to serve
02
(golf) to tee off
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发球 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发球 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami and Layla were serving shots.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发球.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发球.
Directly before
- 你发球1
- 正在发球1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 发球
What does 发球 mean in Chinese?
发球 (fāqiú) means (tennis etc) to serve.
How do you pronounce 发球?
发球 is pronounced fāqiú.
Is 发球 an HSK word?
发球 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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