A cold wave of fear hit me like a brick.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
寒意
a nip in the air
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a nip in the air
02
chilliness
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 寒意 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 寒意 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A chill ran down his spine as he crossed the park.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 寒意.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 寒意.
Directly before
- 一阵寒意2
Directly after
- 寒意像1
- 寒意顺著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 寒意
What does 寒意 mean in Chinese?
寒意 (hányì) means a nip in the air.
How do you pronounce 寒意?
寒意 is pronounced hányì.
Is 寒意 an HSK word?
寒意 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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