He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
幌子
shop sign
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
shop sign
02
signboard
03
(fig.) pretense
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 幌子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 幌子 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 幌子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 幌子.
Directly before
- 的幌子2
Directly after
- 幌子来2
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 幌子
What does 幌子 mean in Chinese?
幌子 (huǎngzi) means shop sign.
How do you pronounce 幌子?
幌子 is pronounced huǎngzi.
Is 幌子 an HSK word?
幌子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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