CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

名为

míngwéi

to be called

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to be called

to be known as

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 名为 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 名为 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

马尾藻海是一片广阔的海域，因一种名为「马尾藻」的自由漂浮海藻而得名。mǎ wěi zǎo hǎi shì yī piàn guǎng kuò de hǎi yù， yīn yī zhǒng míng wèi 「mǎ wěi zǎo」 de zì yóu piāo fú hǎi zǎo ér dé míng。

The Sargasso Sea is a vast patch of ocean named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum.

七个月前，一家名为苏克埃尔塔耶布的黎巴嫩社会企业的厨师开始教这些妇女新的烹饪技能，包括萨姆克哈拉 (在鱼里塞满松子、香菜和辣椒酱) 和马阿穆尔饼乾等传统菜肴。qī gè yuè qián， yī jiā míng wèi sū kè āi ěr tǎ yé bù de lí bā nèn shè huì qǐ yè de chú shī kāi shǐ jiào zhè xiē fù nǚ xīn de pēng rèn jì néng， bāo kuò sà mǔ kè hā lā ( zài yú lǐ sāi mǎn sōng zi、 xiāng cài hé là jiāo jiàng ) hé mǎ ā mù ěr bǐng qián děng chuán tǒng cài yáo。

Seven months ago, chefs from a Lebanese social enterprise named Souk el Tayeb began teaching the women new cooking skills, including such traditional dishes as samke harra — fish stuffed with pine nuts, coriander and chili sauce — and ma'amoul cookies.

"亲爱的，快，快。有个名为Tatoeba的网站正在拍卖它的句子收藏一句每一分钱！他们甚至有个优惠像是买一百句送一句！" "啊太好了！现在人们收集句子当作嗜好？！这是什麽世界来著！"" qīn ài de， kuài， kuài。 yǒu gè míng wèi Tatoeba de wǎng zhàn zhèng zài pāi mài tā de jù zi shōu cáng yī jù měi yī fēn qián！ tā men shèn zhì yǒu gè yōu huì xiàng shì mǎi yì bǎi jù sòng yī jù！" " a tài hǎo le！ xiàn zài rén men shōu jí jù zi dàng zuò shì hào？！ zhè shì shén mó shì jiè lái zhù！"

"Honey, quick, quick. There's this website called Tatoeba that's auctioning its sentence collection for a cent each! They've even got special offers like buy 100 sentences and get 1 free!" "Ah great! now people collect sentences as a hobby?! What's the world coming to!"

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 名为.

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

Directly before

一座名为1
有个名为1
的名为1
一家名为1
一种名为1

Directly after

名为圣母院1
名为圣1
名为苏克1
名为精进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 名为

What does 名为 mean in Chinese?

名为 (míngwéi) means to be called.

How do you pronounce 名为?

名为 is pronounced míngwéi.

Is 名为 an HSK word?

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

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