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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天花

tiānhuā

smallpox

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

smallpox

02

ceiling

03

stamen of corn

04

(old) snow

05

(dialect) sesame oil

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天花 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天花 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我一天花了500美元。wǒ yī tiān huā le 500 měi yuán。

I've spent $500 a day.

他们奋斗的目标是消灭天花。tā men fèn dòu de mù biāo shì xiāo miè tiān huā。

They are struggling with the goal of wiping out smallpox.

现今每个人都对天花免疫了。xiàn jīn měi gè rén dōu duì tiān huā miǎn yì le。

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天花.

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

Directly before

  • 对天花1
  • 一天花1
  • 消灭天花1

Directly after

  • 天花免疫1
  • 天花了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 天花

What does 天花 mean in Chinese?

天花 (tiānhuā) means smallpox.

How do you pronounce 天花?

天花 is pronounced tiānhuā.

Is 天花 an HSK word?

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

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