Please knock on the door.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
敲门
to knock on a door
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to knock on a door
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 敲门 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 敲门 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Someone knocked on the door.
When happiness comes knocking at your door.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 敲门.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 敲门.
Directly before
- 请敲门4
- 在敲门4
- 来敲门3
- 有人敲门2
- 幸福敲门1
Directly after
- 敲门的2
- 敲门了1
- 敲门时1
- 敲门就1
- 敲门吗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 敲门
What does 敲门 mean in Chinese?
敲门 (qiāomén) means to knock on a door.
How do you pronounce 敲门?
敲门 is pronounced qiāomén.
Is 敲门 an HSK word?
敲门 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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