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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

复述

fùshù

to repeat (one's own words or sb else's)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to repeat (one's own words or sb else's)

02

(in the classroom) to paraphrase what one has learned

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 复述 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 复述 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

汤姆不喜欢复述。tāng mǔ bù xǐ huān fù shù。

Tom doesn't like repeating himself.

用自己的语言把课文内容复述。yòng zì jǐ de yǔ yán bǎ kè wén nèi róng fù shù。

Use your own words to retell the content of the lesson.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 复述.

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

Directly before

  • 课文内容复述1
  • 喜欢复述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 复述

What does 复述 mean in Chinese?

复述 (fùshù) means to repeat (one's own words or sb else's).

How do you pronounce 复述?

复述 is pronounced fùshù.

Is 复述 an HSK word?

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

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