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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

拜拜

báibái

(loanword) bye-bye

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(loanword) bye-bye

02

(coll.) to part ways (with sb)

03

(fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 拜拜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拜拜 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

拜拜!bài bài!

Bye!

狗狗又在拜拜。gǒu gǒu yòu zài bài bài。

No published English translation for this sentence.

来日再见!拜拜!lái rì zài jiàn! bài bài!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 拜拜.

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

Directly before

  • 去拜拜1
  • 在拜拜1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 拜拜

What does 拜拜 mean in Chinese?

拜拜 (báibái) means (loanword) bye-bye.

How do you pronounce 拜拜?

拜拜 is pronounced báibái. It also has the reading bàibai.

Is 拜拜 an HSK word?

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

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