Thousands of people rushed to Nome.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
数以千计
thousands (of sth)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
thousands (of sth)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 数以千计 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 数以千计 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Thousands of candles illuminated the church during the ceremony.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 数以千计.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 数以千计.
Directly before
- 有数以千计1
Directly after
- 数以千计的3
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 数以千计
What does 数以千计 mean in Chinese?
数以千计 (shùyǐqiānjì) means thousands (of sth).
How do you pronounce 数以千计?
数以千计 is pronounced shùyǐqiānjì.
Is 数以千计 an HSK word?
数以千计 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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