Why are you texting all the time?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发短信
to send a text message
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to send a text message
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发短信 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发短信 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami and Layla kept texting back and forth.
While he was waiting for the train, he listened to music and sent text messages.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发短信.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发短信.
Directly before
- 一会儿发短信1
- 改发短信1
- 课上发短信1
- 总是发短信1
- 来回发短信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 发短信
What does 发短信 mean in Chinese?
发短信 (fāduǎnxìn) means to send a text message.
How do you pronounce 发短信?
发短信 is pronounced fāduǎnxìn.
Is 发短信 an HSK word?
发短信 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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