It's more difficult than you think.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
想像
to imagine; to envision
IN A VIDEO想像
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to imagine; to envision
02
imagination
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 想像 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想像 appears in 24 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's just your imagination.
The situation is worse than we believed.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 想像.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 想像.
Directly before
- 无法想像5
- 和想像2
- 人能想像2
- 的想像2
- 我想像2
Directly after
- 想像的6
- 想像没有4
- 想像一个2
- 想像被1
- 想像一下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 想像
What does 想像 mean in Chinese?
想像 (xiǎngxiàng) means to imagine; to envision.
How do you pronounce 想像?
想像 is pronounced xiǎngxiàng.
Is 想像 an HSK word?
想像 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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