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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

启航

qǐháng

(of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 启航 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 启航 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一艘巨大的液货船刚刚启航。yī sōu jù dà de yè huò chuán gāng gāng qǐ háng。

A huge tanker cast off just now.

一艘巨大的货轮刚刚启航。yī sōu jù dà de huò lún gāng gāng qǐ háng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 启航.

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

Directly before

  • 刚刚启航2

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 启航

What does 启航 mean in Chinese?

启航 (qǐháng) means (of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off.

How do you pronounce 启航?

启航 is pronounced qǐháng.

Is 启航 an HSK word?

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

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