The word came to be used for all small heavenly bodies revolving about larger ones.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
指代
to refer to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to refer to
02
to be used in place of
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 指代 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 指代 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 指代.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 指代.
Directly before
- 用来指代1
- 则指代1
Directly after
- 指代围绕1
- 指代天地万物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 指代
What does 指代 mean in Chinese?
指代 (zhǐdài) means to refer to.
How do you pronounce 指代?
指代 is pronounced zhǐdài.
Is 指代 an HSK word?
指代 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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