There is an alley behind my house.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
弄堂
(dialect) alley
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(dialect) alley
02
lane
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 弄堂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 弄堂 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Turn north, walk to the second alley, and you're there.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 弄堂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 弄堂.
Directly before
- 在弄堂1
- 条弄堂1
- 小弄堂1
- 第二条弄堂1
- 旧弄堂1
Directly after
- 弄堂的1
- 弄堂一直1
- 弄堂向1
- 弄堂就是1
- 弄堂生活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 弄堂
What does 弄堂 mean in Chinese?
弄堂 (lòngtáng) means (dialect) alley.
How do you pronounce 弄堂?
弄堂 is pronounced lòngtáng.
Is 弄堂 an HSK word?
弄堂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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