CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

尘土

chéntǔ

dust

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

dust

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 尘土 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 尘土 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

孩子们在尘土里游戏。hái zi men zài chén tǔ lǐ yóu xì。

The children were playing in the dirt.

一团尘土与瓦砾腾空而起，在空中盘旋了数分钟。yī tuán chén tǔ yǔ wǎ lì téng kōng ér qǐ， zài kōng zhōng pán xuán le shù fēn zhōng。

A cloud of dust and debris rose and lingered in the sky for a few minutes afterward.

不，说真的，一点也不；但要循著合理的推论、凭著适度的谨慎 / 跟随他到那里，就像这样：亚历山大死了，/ 亚历山大被埋葬了，亚历山大化为尘土；尘土是 / 泥土；用泥土我们制作黏土；那麽为什麽那堆黏土（他 / 所化成的）不能用来塞一个啤酒桶呢？/ 威严的凯撒，死后化为黏土，/ 或可堵住一个洞，挡住风的侵入。/ 呵，那曾令世界战栗的泥土 / 如今竟用来修补墙壁，抵御冬日的寒风！bù， shuō zhēn de， yì diǎn yě bù； dàn yào xún zhù hé lǐ de tuī lùn、 píng zhù shì dù de jǐn shèn / gēn suí tā dào nà lǐ， jiù xiàng zhè yàng： yà lì shān dà sǐ le，/ yà lì shān dà bèi mái zàng le， yà lì shān dà huà wèi chén tǔ； chén tǔ shì / ní tǔ； yòng ní tǔ wǒ men zhì zuò nián tǔ； nà mó wèi shén mó nà duī nián tǔ （tā / suǒ huà chéng de） bù néng yòng lái sāi yí gè pí jiǔ tǒng ne？/ wēi yán de kǎi sā， sǐ hòu huà wèi nián tǔ，/ huò kě dǔ zhù yí gè dòng， dǎng zhù fēng de qīn rù。/ hē， nà céng lìng shì jiè zhàn lì de ní tǔ / rú jīn jìng yòng lái xiū bǔ qiáng bì， dǐ yù dōng rì de hán fēng！

No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 尘土.

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

Directly before

在尘土1
化为尘土1
一团尘土1

Directly after

尘土里1
尘土是1
尘土与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 尘土

What does 尘土 mean in Chinese?

尘土 (chéntǔ) means dust.

How do you pronounce 尘土?

尘土 is pronounced chéntǔ.

Is 尘土 an HSK word?

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

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