He is not a poet but a novelist.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小说家
novelist
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
novelist
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小说家 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小说家 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He is a novelist and poet.
I met a novelist and a poet.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小说家.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小说家.
Directly before
- 是小说家2
- 一位小说家2
- 中国小说家1
- 一个小说家1
- 著名小说家1
Directly after
- 小说家和3
- 小说家说谎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 小说家
What does 小说家 mean in Chinese?
小说家 (xiǎoshuōjiā) means novelist.
How do you pronounce 小说家?
小说家 is pronounced xiǎoshuōjiā.
Is 小说家 an HSK word?
小说家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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