When the cat is away, the mice will play.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大王
king
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
king
02
magnate
03
person having expert skill in something
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大王 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大王 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
When the landlord's away, the tenants will play.
I heard the manager's wife is on vacation. And, well, when the cat's away, the mice play. Now he's out partying every night.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大王.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大王.
Directly before
- 称大王3
- 今大王1
Directly after
- 大王了1
- 大王已去1
- 大王您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 大王
What does 大王 mean in Chinese?
大王 (dàwáng) means king.
How do you pronounce 大王?
大王 is pronounced dàwáng. It also has the reading dàiwang.
Is 大王 an HSK word?
大王 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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