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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

大难

dànàn

great catastrophe

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

great catastrophe

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大难 actually appears in real sentences.

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只能说,大难全死,必有后福啊。zhǐ néng shuō, dà nàn quán sǐ, bì yǒu hòu fú a。

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俗话说:在天愿作比翼鸟,在地愿为连理枝;可俗话又说:夫妻本是同林鸟,大难来时各自飞!sú huà shuō: zài tiān yuàn zuò bǐ yì niǎo, zài dì yuàn wèi lián lǐ zhī; kě sú huà yòu shuō: fū qī běn shì tóng lín niǎo, dà nàn lái shí gè zì fēi!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大难.

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

Directly before

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

  • 大难来时1
  • 大难全死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 大难

What does 大难 mean in Chinese?

大难 (dànàn) means great catastrophe.

How do you pronounce 大难?

大难 is pronounced dànàn.

Is 大难 an HSK word?

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

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