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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

告吹

gàochuī

to fizzle out

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to fizzle out

02

to come to nothing

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 告吹 actually appears in real sentences.

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

他和他的女朋友的恋情早就告吹了。tā hé tā de nǚ péng yǒu de liàn qíng zǎo jiù gào chuī le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

不立即解决,那桩事会马上告吹的。bù lì jí jiě jué, nà zhuāng shì huì mǎ shàng gào chuī de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 告吹.

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

Directly before

  • 马上告吹1
  • 早就告吹1

Directly after

  • 告吹的1
  • 告吹了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 告吹

What does 告吹 mean in Chinese?

告吹 (gàochuī) means to fizzle out.

How do you pronounce 告吹?

告吹 is pronounced gàochuī.

Is 告吹 an HSK word?

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

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