We polished our shoes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
擦亮
to polish
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to polish
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 擦亮 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 擦亮 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I got him to polish my shoes.
Susan shined her father's shoes.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 擦亮.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 擦亮.
Directly before
- 鞋擦亮1
- 他擦亮1
- 苏珊擦亮1
- 鞋子擦亮1
- 我们擦亮1
Directly after
- 擦亮了2
- 擦亮我1
- 擦亮你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 擦亮
What does 擦亮 mean in Chinese?
擦亮 (cāliàng) means to polish.
How do you pronounce 擦亮?
擦亮 is pronounced cāliàng.
Is 擦亮 an HSK word?
擦亮 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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