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庄子

zhuāngzi

(coll.) village; hamlet

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(coll.) village; hamlet

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 庄子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 庄子 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

惠子问庄子：「子非鱼，安知鱼之乐？」huì zi wèn zhuāng zi：「zi fēi yú， ān zhī yú zhī lè？」

Huizi asked Zhuangzi: "If you're not a fish, how do you know what fish enjoy?"

庄子曾梦见自己化身为蝶，当他醒来，他分不清是自己刚刚梦见自己变成蝴蝶呢，还是蝴蝶正梦见它变成了庄子。zhuāng zi céng mèng jiàn zì jǐ huà shēn wèi dié， dāng tā xǐng lái， tā fēn bù qīng shì zì jǐ gāng gāng mèng jiàn zì jǐ biàn chéng hú dié ne， hái shì hú dié zhèng mèng jiàn tā biàn chéng le zhuāng zi。

Once, Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, but when he woke up, he wasn't sure whether he was Zhuangzi who had dreamed being a butterfly or if he was a butterfly now dreaming he was Zhuangzi.

老子和庄子并称「老庄」，两人思想合称为道家学派的核心。lǎo zi hé zhuāng zi bìng chēng 「lǎo zhuāng」， liǎng rén sī xiǎng hé chēng wéi dào jiā xué pài de hé xīn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 庄子.

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

Directly before

  • 问庄子1
  • 了庄子1
  • 与庄子1
  • 和庄子1

Directly after

  • 庄子曾1
  • 庄子谋得1
  • 庄子并称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 庄子

What does 庄子 mean in Chinese?

庄子 (zhuāngzi) means (coll.) village; hamlet.

How do you pronounce 庄子?

庄子 is pronounced zhuāngzi.

Is 庄子 an HSK word?

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

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