They gathered about the fireplace.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
壁炉
fireplace
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
fireplace
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 壁炉 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 壁炉 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The clock is above the fireplace.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 壁炉.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 壁炉.
Directly before
- 在壁炉2
- 坐在壁炉1
Directly after
- 壁炉旁边1
- 壁炉的1
- 壁炉便是1
- 壁炉前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 壁炉
What does 壁炉 mean in Chinese?
壁炉 (bìlú) means fireplace.
How do you pronounce 壁炉?
壁炉 is pronounced bìlú.
Is 壁炉 an HSK word?
壁炉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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