My teacher taught me that you can take the square root of a negative number.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
平方根
square root
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
square root
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 平方根 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 平方根.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 平方根.
Directly before
- 的平方根2
- 开平方根1
Directly after
- 平方根等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 平方根
What does 平方根 mean in Chinese?
平方根 (píngfānggēn) means square root.
How do you pronounce 平方根?
平方根 is pronounced píngfānggēn.
Is 平方根 an HSK word?
平方根 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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