He is rather hard to please.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
取悦
to try to please
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to try to please
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 取悦 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 取悦 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Some people are difficult to please.
To the best of my knowledge, she's hard to please.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 取悦.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 取悦.
Directly before
- 被取悦1
- 难取悦1
Directly after
- 取悦他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 取悦
What does 取悦 mean in Chinese?
取悦 (qǔyuè) means to try to please.
How do you pronounce 取悦?
取悦 is pronounced qǔyuè.
Is 取悦 an HSK word?
取悦 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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