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戏称

xìchēng

to jokingly call

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to jokingly call

02

jocular appellation

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 戏称 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 戏称 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

约翰是班里个子最高的男生,我们戏称他为「高先生」。yuē hàn shì bān lǐ gè zi zuì gāo de nán shēng, wǒ men xì chēng tā wèi 「gāo xiān shēng」。

John, the tallest boy in our class, is nicknamed "Mr High".

我的朋友戏称南开大学是“南开中学附属大学”。wǒ de péng yǒu xì chēng nán kāi dà xué shì “ nán kāi zhōng xué fù shǔ dà xué ”。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 戏称.

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

Directly before

  • 朋友戏称1
  • 我们戏称1

Directly after

  • 戏称南开大学1
  • 戏称他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 戏称

What does 戏称 mean in Chinese?

戏称 (xìchēng) means to jokingly call.

How do you pronounce 戏称?

戏称 is pronounced xìchēng.

Is 戏称 an HSK word?

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

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