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幽灵

yōulíng

specter

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

specter

02

apparition

03

ghost

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 幽灵 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 幽灵 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

幽灵突然消失了。yōu líng tū rán xiāo shī le。

The ghost vanished suddenly.

你相信有幽灵吗?nǐ xiāng xìn yǒu yōu líng ma?

Do you believe in ghosts?

他获得了召唤幽灵列车的能力。tā huò dé le zhào huàn yōu líng liè chē de néng lì。

He gained the power to summon ghost trains.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 幽灵.

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

Directly before

  • 有幽灵2
  • 个幽灵1
  • 召唤幽灵1

Directly after

  • 幽灵吗1
  • 幽灵突然1
  • 幽灵存在1
  • 幽灵列车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 幽灵

What does 幽灵 mean in Chinese?

幽灵 (yōulíng) means specter.

How do you pronounce 幽灵?

幽灵 is pronounced yōulíng.

Is 幽灵 an HSK word?

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

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