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大白天

dàbáitiān

broad daylight

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

broad daylight

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大白天 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大白天 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

今天强盗大白天的就抢了另一家银行。jīn tiān qiáng dào dà bái tiān de jiù qiǎng le lìng yī jiā yín háng。

The thieves knocked off another bank today in a daytime robbery.

明明是大白天,营地外围的电线杆上却亮著一颗电灯泡。míng míng shì dà bái tiān, yíng dì wài wéi de diàn xiàn gān shàng què liàng zhù yī kē diàn dēng pào。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大白天.

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

Directly before

  • 强盗大白天1
  • 是大白天1

Directly after

  • 大白天的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 大白天

What does 大白天 mean in Chinese?

大白天 (dàbáitiān) means broad daylight.

How do you pronounce 大白天?

大白天 is pronounced dàbáitiān.

Is 大白天 an HSK word?

大白天 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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