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坏蛋

huàidàn

bad egg

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

bad egg

02

scoundrel

03

bastard

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 坏蛋 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坏蛋 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

每个警察都是坏蛋。měi gè jǐng chá dōu shì huài dàn。

All cops are bastards.

这套电视剧里的惊察似乎是个滥用职权的坏蛋。zhè tào diàn shì jù lǐ de jīng chá sì hū shì gè làn yòng zhí quán de huài dàn。

It seems that the policeman in this TV series is a dirty cop who abuses his authority.

“坏蛋!鬼怪!寄生虫!” 哈多克船长叫嚷著。“ huài dàn! guǐ guài! jì shēng chóng!” hā duō kè chuán zhǎng jiào rǎng zhù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 坏蛋.

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

Directly before

  • 的坏蛋1
  • 是坏蛋1

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 坏蛋

What does 坏蛋 mean in Chinese?

坏蛋 (huàidàn) means bad egg.

How do you pronounce 坏蛋?

坏蛋 is pronounced huàidàn.

Is 坏蛋 an HSK word?

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

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