I dislike big cities.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大城市
major city; metropolis
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
major city; metropolis
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大城市 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大城市 appears in 19 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The big cities are full of allurements.
I live in a big city.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大城市.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大城市.
Directly before
- 在大城市4
- 的大城市3
- 喜欢大城市2
- 一个大城市1
- 我国大城市1
Directly after
- 大城市里4
- 大城市的2
- 大城市之间1
- 大城市存在1
- 大城市上班族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 大城市
What does 大城市 mean in Chinese?
大城市 (dàchéngshì) means major city; metropolis.
How do you pronounce 大城市?
大城市 is pronounced dàchéngshì.
Is 大城市 an HSK word?
大城市 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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