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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

指明

zhǐmíng

to show clearly

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to show clearly

02

to designate

03

to indicate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 指明 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 指明 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

现代战术并无指明士兵必须全副武装上阵才能发挥其最大的战斗力。xiàn dài zhàn shù bìng wú zhǐ míng shì bīng bì xū quán fù wǔ zhuāng shàng zhèn cái néng fā huī qí zuì dà de zhàn dòu lì。

The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.

罗马帝国灭亡的其中一个主要原因是他们没有0 —— 这样他们就没法给自己的C程序指明成功退出的路。luó mǎ dì guó miè wáng de qí zhōng yí gè zhǔ yào yuán yīn shì tā men méi yǒu 0 —— zhè yàng tā men jiù méi fǎ gěi zì jǐ de C chéng xù zhǐ míng chéng gōng tuì chū de lù。

An important reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they had no zero. So they had no way of demonstrating a successful exit of their C programs.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 指明.

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

Directly before

  • 无指明1
  • 程序指明1

Directly after

  • 指明士兵1
  • 指明成功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 指明

What does 指明 mean in Chinese?

指明 (zhǐmíng) means to show clearly.

How do you pronounce 指明?

指明 is pronounced zhǐmíng.

Is 指明 an HSK word?

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

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