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尘埃

chénāi

dust

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

dust

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 尘埃 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 尘埃 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

宇航服保护宇航员们不会因和微小宇宙尘埃碰撞而受伤。yǔ háng fú bǎo hù yǔ háng yuán men bú huì yīn hé wēi xiǎo yǔ zhòu chén āi pèng zhuàng ér shòu shāng。

Spacesuits protect astronauts from being injured from impacts of small bits of space dust.

虽然宇宙尘埃被认为不是很危险,但就算是极小的颗粒,以数倍于子弹的速度飞来的话,也可能造成受伤。suī rán yǔ zhòu chén āi bèi rèn wéi bú shì hěn wēi xiǎn, dàn jiù suàn shì jí xiǎo de kē lì, yǐ shù bèi yú zǐ dàn de sù dù fēi lái de huà, yě kě néng zào chéng shòu shāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 尘埃.

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

Directly before

  • 宇宙尘埃2

Directly after

  • 尘埃碰撞1
  • 尘埃被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 尘埃

What does 尘埃 mean in Chinese?

尘埃 (chénāi) means dust.

How do you pronounce 尘埃?

尘埃 is pronounced chénāi.

Is 尘埃 an HSK word?

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

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