Yesterday my uncle bought a dog.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
昨日
yesterday
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
yesterday
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 昨日 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 昨日 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Most of today's books seem to have emerged overnight from yesterday's books.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 昨日.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 昨日.
Directly before
- 种种昨日2
- 正是昨日1
- 我昨日1
- 从昨日1
- 总理大臣昨日1
Directly after
- 昨日种种2
- 昨日死2
- 昨日我1
- 昨日殒身1
- 昨日一天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 昨日
What does 昨日 mean in Chinese?
昨日 (zuórì) means yesterday.
How do you pronounce 昨日?
昨日 is pronounced zuórì.
Is 昨日 an HSK word?
昨日 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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