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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

同性恋

tóngxìngliàn

homosexuality

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

homosexuality

02

gay person

03

gay love

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 同性恋 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 同性恋 appears in 18 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他装同性恋。tā zhuāng tóng xìng liàn。

He pretends to be gay.

你是同性恋吗?nǐ shì tóng xìng liàn ma?

Are you gay?

我是同性恋,所以呢?wǒ shì tóng xìng liàn, suǒ yǐ ne?

I'm gay, so?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 同性恋.

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

Directly before

  • 是同性恋10
  • 他装同性恋1
  • 和同性恋1
  • 不是同性恋1
  • 的同性恋1

Directly after

  • 同性恋的2
  • 同性恋的话1
  • 同性恋那1
  • 同性恋倾向1
  • 同性恋吗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 同性恋

What does 同性恋 mean in Chinese?

同性恋 (tóngxìngliàn) means homosexuality.

How do you pronounce 同性恋?

同性恋 is pronounced tóngxìngliàn.

Is 同性恋 an HSK word?

同性恋 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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