He was able to get home before dark.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
天黑
to get dark
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to get dark
02
dusk
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 天黑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天黑 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We swam until it got dark.
Don't go out after it gets dark.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 天黑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天黑.
Directly before
- 在天黑5
- 我天黑2
- 不会天黑1
- 到天黑1
- 一月份天黑1
Directly after
- 天黑前3
- 天黑之前3
- 天黑后2
- 天黑之后2
- 天黑的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 天黑
What does 天黑 mean in Chinese?
天黑 (tiānhēi) means to get dark.
How do you pronounce 天黑?
天黑 is pronounced tiānhēi.
Is 天黑 an HSK word?
天黑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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