The world is full of traitors.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
叛徒
traitor
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
traitor
02
turncoat
03
rebel
04
renegade
05
insurgent
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 叛徒 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 叛徒 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We have a traitor among us.
We had thought that he was a hero, but he turned out to be a traitor.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 叛徒.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 叛徒.
Directly before
- 了叛徒2
- 有个叛徒1
- 一个叛徒1
- 是叛徒1
- 只有叛徒1
Directly after
- 叛徒和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 叛徒
What does 叛徒 mean in Chinese?
叛徒 (pàntú) means traitor.
How do you pronounce 叛徒?
叛徒 is pronounced pàntú.
Is 叛徒 an HSK word?
叛徒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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