How do you spell "pretty"?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拼写
to spell
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to spell
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拼写 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拼写 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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Many words are pronounced according to the spelling, but some are not.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拼写.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拼写.
Directly before
- 怎么拼写2
- 根据拼写1
- 英文拼写1
- 且拼写1
Directly after
- 拼写来1
- 拼写的1
- 拼写正确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 拼写
What does 拼写 mean in Chinese?
拼写 (pīnxiě) means to spell.
How do you pronounce 拼写?
拼写 is pronounced pīnxiě.
Is 拼写 an HSK word?
拼写 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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