The referee blew his whistle twice to tell everyone it was full-time.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吹哨
to blow a whistle
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to blow a whistle
02
to whistle
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吹哨 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吹哨 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Messi was very close to scoring a goal, but the referee blew his whistle to say that he was offside.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吹哨.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吹哨.
Directly before
- 裁判吹哨2
Directly after
- 吹哨两次1
- 吹哨说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 吹哨
What does 吹哨 mean in Chinese?
吹哨 (chuīshào) means to blow a whistle.
How do you pronounce 吹哨?
吹哨 is pronounced chuīshào.
Is 吹哨 an HSK word?
吹哨 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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