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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

后背

hòubèi

the back (human anatomy)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

the back (human anatomy)

02

the back part of sth

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 后背 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 后背 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我的后背有点儿痒。wǒ de hòu bèi yǒu diǎn ér yǎng。

My back is a bit itchy.

我的后背疼死了。wǒ de hòu bèi téng sǐ le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

很多大只佬很难反手摸到自己的后背。hěn duō dà zhǐ lǎo hěn nán fǎn shǒu mō dào zì jǐ de hòu bèi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 后背.

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

Directly before

  • 的后背3

Directly after

  • 后背疼死1
  • 后背有点儿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 后背

What does 后背 mean in Chinese?

后背 (hòubèi) means the back (human anatomy).

How do you pronounce 后背?

后背 is pronounced hòubèi.

Is 后背 an HSK word?

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

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