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字条

zìtiáo

brief note

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

brief note

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 字条 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 字条 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我发现了我办公桌上有张字条, 但是我不知道是谁写的。wǒ fā xiàn le wǒ bàn gōng zhuō shàng yǒu zhāng zì tiáo, dàn shì wǒ bù zhī dào shì shuí xiě de。

I noticed a note on my desk, but I do not know who wrote it.

汤姆晚上在酒吧里和他的哥们儿们高兴了一通以后回家发现前门上贴著一张字条,上有他妻子的笔迹,写著:「绝对别觉得我可能会再回来,我跟你从此断绝了!」tāng mǔ wǎn shàng zài jiǔ bā lǐ hé tā dī gē men ér men gāo xìng le yí tòng yǐ hòu huí jiā fā xiàn qián mén shàng tiē zhù yī zhāng zì tiáo, shàng yǒu tā qī zǐ de bǐ jì, xiě zhù:「jué duì bié jué de wǒ kě néng huì zài huí lái, wǒ gēn nǐ cóng cǐ duàn jué le!」

Returning home from an evening down the pub with his mates, Tom found a handwritten note stuck to the front door; the handwriting was his wife's. It read: "You can forget any idea that I might come back – I've left you!"

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 字条.

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

Directly before

  • 张字条1
  • 一张字条1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 字条

What does 字条 mean in Chinese?

字条 (zìtiáo) means brief note.

How do you pronounce 字条?

字条 is pronounced zìtiáo.

Is 字条 an HSK word?

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

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