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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

可乐

kělè

amusing

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

amusing

02

entertaining

03

(loanword) cola

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 可乐 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 可乐 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他们喝可乐。tā men hē kě lè。

They drink coke.

去买三瓶可乐。qù mǎi sān píng kě lè。

Go and buy three bottles of coke.

与其喝可乐,倒不如喝香槟。yǔ qí hē kě lè, dào bù rú hē xiāng bīn。

Instead of drinking cola, why not drink champagne?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 可乐.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 可乐.

Directly before

  • 喝可乐4
  • 三瓶可乐1
  • 很多可乐1
  • 这可乐1
  • 一杯可乐1

Directly after

  • 可乐太甜1
  • 可乐吗1
  • 可乐就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 可乐

What does 可乐 mean in Chinese?

可乐 (kělè) means amusing.

How do you pronounce 可乐?

可乐 is pronounced kělè.

Is 可乐 an HSK word?

可乐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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