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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
后院
rear court
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
rear court
02
back garden
03
backyard (also fig.)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 后院 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 后院 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Tom cut down a tree in his yard.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 后院.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 后院.
Directly before
- 在后院1
- 你家后院1
- 我家后院1
- 把后院1
Directly after
- 后院砍伐1
- 后院有1
- 后院有个1
- 后院的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 后院
What does 后院 mean in Chinese?
后院 (hòuyuàn) means rear court.
How do you pronounce 后院?
后院 is pronounced hòuyuàn.
Is 后院 an HSK word?
后院 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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