Turn left at the corner.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拐角
to turn a corner
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to turn a corner
02
corner
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拐角 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拐角 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He lives just around the corner.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拐角.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拐角.
Directly before
- 在拐角1
- 那个拐角1
Directly after
- 拐角的1
- 拐角左转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 拐角
What does 拐角 mean in Chinese?
拐角 (guǎijiǎo) means to turn a corner.
How do you pronounce 拐角?
拐角 is pronounced guǎijiǎo.
Is 拐角 an HSK word?
拐角 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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