CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

挚爱

zhìài

true love

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

true love

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 挚爱 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 挚爱 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你就是我永远的挚爱。nǐ jiù shì wǒ yǒng yuǎn de zhì ài。

You're the one I'll always love.

我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。wǒ men zài shū zhōng rèn shí de rén kě yǐ dài gěi wǒ men yú yuè huò shì tā men yǔ wǒ men shēng huó zhōng zhì ài de péng yǒu xiāng sì， huò shì yīn wèi tā men shì wǒ men suǒ bù shú xī què lè yú jié shí de rén。

The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.

如果没有我过去16年最好的朋友、我们家庭的中坚、我生命中的挚爱，我今天晚上不可能站在这里，美国下一位第一夫人米歇尔-奥巴马。rú guǒ méi yǒu wǒ guò qù 16 nián zuì hǎo de péng yǒu、 wǒ men jiā tíng de zhōng jiān、 wǒ shēng mìng zhòng de zhì ài， wǒ jīn tiān wǎn shàng bù kě néng zhàn zài zhè lǐ， měi guó xià yī wèi dì yī fū rén mǐ xiē ěr - ào bā mǎ。

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 挚爱.

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

Directly before

的挚爱2
中挚爱1

Directly after

挚爱的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 挚爱

What does 挚爱 mean in Chinese?

挚爱 (zhìài) means true love.

How do you pronounce 挚爱?

挚爱 is pronounced zhìài.

Is 挚爱 an HSK word?

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

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