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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

恋人

liànrén

lover

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

lover

02

sweetheart

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 恋人 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 恋人 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

两个恋人发誓永远相爱。liǎng gè liàn rén fā shì yǒng yuǎn xiāng ài。

The two lovers swore to love each other for eternity.

把恋人从3D换成2D可以有效地降低交际所需的费用。bǎ liàn rén cóng 3D huàn chéng 2D kě yǐ yǒu xiào dì jiàng dī jiāo jì suǒ xū de fèi yòng。

By switching your lover from 3D to 2D, you may successfully reduce all social-interaction-related costs.

这个作者完全不懂为什么一对不能够成为恋人的男女会成为朋友。zhè ge zuò zhě wán quán bù dǒng wèi shén me yī duì bù néng gòu chéng wéi liàn rén de nán nǚ huì chéng wéi péng yǒu。

This author doesn't understand at all why a man and a woman who can't become lovers would become friends.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 恋人.

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

Directly before

  • 了恋人1
  • 把恋人1
  • 两个恋人1
  • 成为恋人1

Directly after

  • 恋人面前1
  • 恋人从1
  • 恋人发誓1
  • 恋人的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 恋人

What does 恋人 mean in Chinese?

恋人 (liànrén) means lover.

How do you pronounce 恋人?

恋人 is pronounced liànrén.

Is 恋人 an HSK word?

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

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