There are hundreds of books in his study.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
数百
several hundred
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
several hundred
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 数百 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 数百 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Newsflash: People a couple of hundred years ago didn't speak the same as we do.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 数百.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 数百.
Directly before
- 有数百2
Directly after
- 数百本书2
- 数百多年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 数百
What does 数百 mean in Chinese?
数百 (shùbǎi) means several hundred.
How do you pronounce 数百?
数百 is pronounced shùbǎi.
Is 数百 an HSK word?
数百 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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