CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

文采

wéncǎi

literary talent

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

literary talent

literary grace

rich and bright colors

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 文采 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 文采 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

惜秦皇汉武，略输文采；唐宗宋祖，稍逊风骚。一代天骄，成吉思汗，只识弯弓射大雕。俱往矣，数风流人物，还看今朝。xī qín huáng hàn wǔ， lüè shū wén cǎi； táng zōng sòng zǔ， shāo xùn fēng sāo。 yí dài tiān jiāo， chéng jí sī hán， zhǐ shí wān gōng shè dà diāo。 jù wǎng yǐ， shù fēng liú rén wù， hái kàn jīn zhāo。

Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han, though remarkable in their achievements, somewhat lacked in literary grace; Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song, though commendable in their elegance, still fall slightly short in their brilliance. The proud conqueror, Genghis Khan, knew only how to bend the bow and shoot great eagles. All of them are now bygone, and if you want to count the truly remarkable figures, look to the present age.

南北朝之所以不得治理妥当，是因为浮华的文采压倒了质朴的内容。nán běi cháo zhī suǒ yǐ bù dé zhì lǐ tuǒ dàng， shì yīn wèi fú huá de wén cǎi yā dǎo le zhì piáo de nèi róng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 文采.

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

Directly before

略输文采1
的文采1

Directly after

文采压倒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 文采

What does 文采 mean in Chinese?

文采 (wéncǎi) means literary talent.

How do you pronounce 文采?

文采 is pronounced wéncǎi.

Is 文采 an HSK word?

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

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