It's all Greek to me.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天书
imperial edict
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
imperial edict
02
heavenly book (superstition)
03
obscure or illegible writing
04
double dutch
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天书 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天书 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
That was all Chinese to me.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天书.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天书.
Directly before
- 像天书1
- 是天书1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 天书
What does 天书 mean in Chinese?
天书 (tiānshū) means imperial edict.
How do you pronounce 天书?
天书 is pronounced tiānshū.
Is 天书 an HSK word?
天书 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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