Don't be afraid to ask questions.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发问
to question
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to question
02
to ask
03
to raise a question
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发问 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发问 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Ziri started blurting out questions.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发问.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发问.
Directly before
- 害怕发问1
- 勇气发问1
- 喜欢发问1
- 连番发问1
Directly after
- 发问的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 发问
What does 发问 mean in Chinese?
发问 (fāwèn) means to question.
How do you pronounce 发问?
发问 is pronounced fāwèn.
Is 发问 an HSK word?
发问 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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