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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
暴动
insurrection
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
insurrection
02
rebellion
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 暴动 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 暴动 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 暴动.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 暴动.
Directly before
- 一场暴动1
Directly after
- 暴动开始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 暴动
What does 暴动 mean in Chinese?
暴动 (bàodòng) means insurrection.
How do you pronounce 暴动?
暴动 is pronounced bàodòng.
Is 暴动 an HSK word?
暴动 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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