Kyoto is famous for its shrines and temples.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
寺院
cloister
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cloister
02
temple
03
monastery
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 寺院 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 寺院 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Grandmother's ashes are in an urn at the temple.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 寺院.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 寺院.
Directly before
- 和寺院2
- 在寺院1
Directly after
- 寺院而1
- 寺院的1
- 寺院闻名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 寺院
What does 寺院 mean in Chinese?
寺院 (sìyuàn) means cloister.
How do you pronounce 寺院?
寺院 is pronounced sìyuàn.
Is 寺院 an HSK word?
寺院 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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