He entirely lost his temper with me.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发脾气
to lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发脾气 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发脾气 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He loses his temper quite easily.
Yanni was losing his temper.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发脾气.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发脾气.
Directly before
- 就发脾气2
- 容易发脾气2
- 乱发脾气2
- 大发脾气1
- 学生发脾气1
Directly after
- 发脾气是1
- 发脾气了1
- 发脾气会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 发脾气
What does 发脾气 mean in Chinese?
发脾气 (fāpíqì) means to lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum.
How do you pronounce 发脾气?
发脾气 is pronounced fāpíqì.
Is 发脾气 an HSK word?
发脾气 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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