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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

奸细

jiānxi

a spy

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

a spy

02

a crafty person

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 奸细 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 奸细 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他认为我们当中有一个奸细。tā rèn wéi wǒ men dāng zhōng yǒu yí gè jiān xì。

He believes that there is a spy among us.

你不是奸细吧?nǐ bú shì jiān xì ba?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 奸细.

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

Directly before

  • 不是奸细1
  • 一个奸细1

Directly after

  • 奸细吧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 奸细

What does 奸细 mean in Chinese?

奸细 (jiānxi) means a spy.

How do you pronounce 奸细?

奸细 is pronounced jiānxi.

Is 奸细 an HSK word?

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

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