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四合院

sìhéyuàn

courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 四合院 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 四合院 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

在北京，胡同是由四合院的传统居所排形成。zài běi jīng， hú tòng shì yóu sì hé yuàn de chuán tǒng jū suǒ pái xíng chéng。

In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuans, the traditional courtyard residences.

他们的四合院要小得多，设计和装饰也比较简单，胡同也比较窄。tā men de sì hé yuàn yào xiǎo dé duō， shè jì hé zhuāng shì yě bǐ jiào jiǎn dān， hú tòng yě bǐ jiào zhǎi。

Their siheyuans were far smaller in scale and simpler in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.

因为几乎所有的四合院有南面的门和主要楼房，所以大部分的胡同是从东到西建造的。yīn wèi jī hū suǒ yǒu de sì hé yuàn yǒu nán miàn de mén hé zhǔ yào lóu fáng， suǒ yǐ dà bù fèn de hú tòng shì cóng dōng dào xī jiàn zào de。

Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 四合院.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 四合院.

Directly before

  • 的四合院2
  • 由四合院1
  • 其他四合院1
  • 大四合院1

Directly after

  • 四合院的1
  • 四合院和1
  • 四合院形成1
  • 四合院常常1
  • 四合院要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 四合院

What does 四合院 mean in Chinese?

四合院 (sìhéyuàn) means courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence).

How do you pronounce 四合院?

四合院 is pronounced sìhéyuàn.

Is 四合院 an HSK word?

四合院 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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