Please don't shoot.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开枪
to open fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to open fire
02
to shoot a gun
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开枪 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开枪 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom didn't mean to shoot anyone.
I didn't mean to shoot Tom.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开枪.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开枪.
Directly before
- 就开枪3
- 市中心开枪1
- 会开枪1
- 不要开枪1
- 汤姆开枪1
Directly after
- 开枪射击1
- 开枪了1
- 开枪射1
- 开枪打1
- 开枪的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 开枪
What does 开枪 mean in Chinese?
开枪 (kāiqiāng) means to open fire.
How do you pronounce 开枪?
开枪 is pronounced kāiqiāng.
Is 开枪 an HSK word?
开枪 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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