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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

收场

shōuchǎng

the end

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

the end

02

an ending

03

to wind down

04

to conclude

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 收场 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 收场 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我喜欢以悲剧收场的故事。wǒ xǐ huān yǐ bēi jù shōu chǎng de gù shì。

I like stories that have sad endings.

我们的对话总是以争吵收场。wǒ men de duì huà zǒng shì yǐ zhēng chǎo shōu chǎng。

Our conversation always ends in a quarrel.

我尝试过很多东西,但最后都失败收场。wǒ cháng shì guò hěn duō dōng xī, dàn zuì hòu dōu shī bài shōu chǎng。

I tried many things but failed after all.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 收场.

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

Directly before

  • 失败收场1
  • 已经收场1
  • 争吵收场1
  • 悲剧收场1

Directly after

  • 收场了1
  • 收场的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 收场

What does 收场 mean in Chinese?

收场 (shōuchǎng) means the end.

How do you pronounce 收场?

收场 is pronounced shōuchǎng.

Is 收场 an HSK word?

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

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