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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

好奇心

hàoqíxīn

interest in sth

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

interest in sth

02

curiosity

03

inquisitive

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 好奇心 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好奇心 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

现代的北京给了我深刻的印象,也激起了我的好奇心。xiàn dài de běi jīng gěi le wǒ shēn kè de yìn xiàng, yě jī qǐ le wǒ de hào qí xīn。

Today's Beijing has given me a very deep impression and aroused my curiosity.

保持好奇心。bǎo chí hào qí xīn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

好奇心害死猫。hào qí xīn hài sǐ māo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 好奇心.

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

Directly before

  • 的好奇心1
  • 保持好奇心1

Directly after

  • 好奇心害死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 好奇心

What does 好奇心 mean in Chinese?

好奇心 (hàoqíxīn) means interest in sth.

How do you pronounce 好奇心?

好奇心 is pronounced hàoqíxīn.

Is 好奇心 an HSK word?

好奇心 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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