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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

本应

běnyīng

should have; ought to have

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

should have; ought to have

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 本应 actually appears in real sentences.

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

您本应左转的。nín běn yīng zuǒ zhuǎn de。

You should've turned left.

王强本应在温州南站上火车,但他搞错了,去了温州北站。wáng qiáng běn yīng zài wēn zhōu nán zhàn shàng huǒ chē, dàn tā gǎo cuò le, qù le wēn zhōu běi zhàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 本应.

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

Directly before

  • 您本应1
  • 王强本应1

Directly after

  • 本应左转1
  • 本应在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 本应

What does 本应 mean in Chinese?

本应 (běnyīng) means should have; ought to have.

How do you pronounce 本应?

本应 is pronounced běnyīng.

Is 本应 an HSK word?

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

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