Tom is serving a life sentence.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
无期徒刑
life imprisonment
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
life imprisonment
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 无期徒刑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 无期徒刑 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom could face life in prison.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 无期徒刑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 无期徒刑.
Directly before
- 服无期徒刑1
- 被判无期徒刑1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 无期徒刑
What does 无期徒刑 mean in Chinese?
无期徒刑 (wúqītúxíng) means life imprisonment.
How do you pronounce 无期徒刑?
无期徒刑 is pronounced wúqītúxíng.
Is 无期徒刑 an HSK word?
无期徒刑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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