Such things as television and computers could not have been dreamed of fifty years ago.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天方夜谭
fantasy story
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
fantasy story
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天方夜谭 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天方夜谭 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天方夜谭.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天方夜谭.
Directly before
- 是天方夜谭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 天方夜谭
What does 天方夜谭 mean in Chinese?
天方夜谭 (tiānfāngyètán) means fantasy story.
How do you pronounce 天方夜谭?
天方夜谭 is pronounced tiānfāngyètán.
Is 天方夜谭 an HSK word?
天方夜谭 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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