Tom gave Mary a flashlight.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
手电筒
flashlight
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
flashlight
02
electric hand torch
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 手电筒 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 手电筒 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You won't be able to see anything without a flashlight.
You won't be able to see anything without a flashlight.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 手电筒.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 手电筒.
Directly before
- 没有手电筒2
- 野战手电筒1
- 一把手电筒1
- 带著手电筒1
Directly after
- 手电筒的话2
- 手电筒不会1
- 手电筒的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 手电筒
What does 手电筒 mean in Chinese?
手电筒 (shǒudiàntǒng) means flashlight.
How do you pronounce 手电筒?
手电筒 is pronounced shǒudiàntǒng.
Is 手电筒 an HSK word?
手电筒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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