Turn on the light, please.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开灯
to turn on the light
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to turn on the light
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开灯 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开灯 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Turn on the light, please.
I put the book down and turned on the light.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开灯.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开灯.
Directly before
- 我开灯1
- 麻烦开灯1
- 请开灯1
- 喜欢开灯1
- 然后开灯1
Directly after
- 开灯一下1
- 开灯的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 开灯
What does 开灯 mean in Chinese?
开灯 (kāidēng) means to turn on the light.
How do you pronounce 开灯?
开灯 is pronounced kāidēng.
Is 开灯 an HSK word?
开灯 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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