I had to get my tattoo removed.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
文身
to tattoo
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to tattoo
02
tattoo
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 文身 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 文身 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom has a tattoo of a skull on his chest.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 文身.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 文身.
Directly before
- 头骨文身1
- 把文身1
Directly after
- 文身去掉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 文身
What does 文身 mean in Chinese?
文身 (wénshēn) means to tattoo.
How do you pronounce 文身?
文身 is pronounced wénshēn.
Is 文身 an HSK word?
文身 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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