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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

扫地

sǎodì

to sweep the floor

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to sweep the floor

02

(fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom

03

to be at an all-time low

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 扫地 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 扫地 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你必须扫地。nǐ bì xū sǎo dì。

You have to sweep the floor.

我让他扫地了。wǒ ràng tā sǎo dì le。

I made him sweep the floor.

他停止扫地,倚着扫帚休息。tā tíng zhǐ sǎo dì, yǐ zhe sào zhǒu xiū xī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 扫地.

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

Directly before

  • 他扫地1
  • 必须扫地1
  • 停止扫地1

Directly after

  • 扫地了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 扫地

What does 扫地 mean in Chinese?

扫地 (sǎodì) means to sweep the floor.

How do you pronounce 扫地?

扫地 is pronounced sǎodì.

Is 扫地 an HSK word?

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

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