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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天体
celestial body
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
celestial body
02
nude body
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天体 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天体 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The solar system is a small celestial system in the Milky Way.
The word came to be used for all small heavenly bodies revolving about larger ones.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天体.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天体.
Directly before
- 的天体2
- 学习天体1
- 想当天体1
- 大天体1
- 小天体1
Directly after
- 天体的2
- 天体系统1
- 天体物理学1
- 天体物理学家1
- 天体上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 天体
What does 天体 mean in Chinese?
天体 (tiāntǐ) means celestial body.
How do you pronounce 天体?
天体 is pronounced tiāntǐ.
Is 天体 an HSK word?
天体 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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