Long time no see!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好久不见
long time no see
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
long time no see
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好久不见 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好久不见 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Long time, no see.
Long time no see!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好久不见.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好久不见.
Directly before
- 我好久不见1
- 真是好久不见1
Directly after
- 好久不见了5
- 好久不见他1
- 好久不见啊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 好久不见
What does 好久不见 mean in Chinese?
好久不见 (hǎojiǔbujiàn) means long time no see.
How do you pronounce 好久不见?
好久不见 is pronounced hǎojiǔbujiàn.
Is 好久不见 an HSK word?
好久不见 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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