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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天意

tiānyì

providence

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

providence

02

the Will of Heaven

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天意 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天意 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

今事不成,乃天意也!jīn shì bù chéng, nǎi tiān yì yě!

No published English translation for this sentence.

俗话说:人定胜天;可俗话又说:天意难违!sú huà shuō: rén dìng shèng tiān; kě sú huà yòu shuō: tiān yì nán wéi!

No published English translation for this sentence.

名与号虽然发音不同,但本质相同,两者都是用以传达天意的鸣号。míng yǔ hào suī rán fā yīn bù tóng, dàn běn zhì xiāng tóng, liǎng zhě dōu shì yòng yǐ chuán dá tiān yì de míng hào。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天意.

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

Directly before

  • 传达天意1
  • 乃天意1

Directly after

  • 天意难违1
  • 天意的1
  • 天意也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 天意

What does 天意 mean in Chinese?

天意 (tiānyì) means providence.

How do you pronounce 天意?

天意 is pronounced tiānyì.

Is 天意 an HSK word?

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

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