It's witchcraft!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
巫术
witchcraft
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
witchcraft
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 巫术 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 巫术 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Magic plays an important part in primitive society.
My child, be not an observer of omens, since it leadeth to idolatry, nor a user of spells, nor an astrologer, nor a travelling purifier, nor wish to see these things, for from all these things idolatry ariseth.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 巫术.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 巫术.
Directly before
- 是巫术1
- 可行巫术1
Directly after
- 巫术在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 巫术
What does 巫术 mean in Chinese?
巫术 (wūshù) means witchcraft.
How do you pronounce 巫术?
巫术 is pronounced wūshù.
Is 巫术 an HSK word?
巫术 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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