Tonight in the night sky, the stars are shining very brightly.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
夜空
night sky
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
night sky
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 夜空 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 夜空 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The turbulent sands above our heads, the flinging of our swords... they're naught but falling stars in the night sky.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 夜空.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 夜空.
Directly before
- 在夜空2
- 的夜空1
- 这夜空1
Directly after
- 夜空中擦过1
- 夜空星光1
- 夜空中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 夜空
What does 夜空 mean in Chinese?
夜空 (yèkōng) means night sky.
How do you pronounce 夜空?
夜空 is pronounced yèkōng.
Is 夜空 an HSK word?
夜空 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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