My roommate is too talkative.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
室友
roommate
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
roommate
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 室友 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 室友 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My roommate is so disgusting.
My roommate is learning Chinese.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 室友.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 室友.
Directly before
- 的室友6
- 我室友1
- 三个室友1
Directly after
- 室友在2
- 室友是1
- 室友真1
- 室友共用1
- 室友被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 室友
What does 室友 mean in Chinese?
室友 (shìyǒu) means roommate.
How do you pronounce 室友?
室友 is pronounced shìyǒu.
Is 室友 an HSK word?
室友 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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