Have you got a letter from him?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
来信
incoming letter
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
incoming letter
02
to send us a letter
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 来信 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 来信 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I got a letter from her.
I am expecting a letter from her.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 来信.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 来信.
Directly before
- 的来信12
- 他来信2
Directly after
- 来信更勤些1
- 来信使1
- 来信让1
- 来信渐渐1
- 来信并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 来信
What does 来信 mean in Chinese?
来信 (láixìn) means incoming letter.
How do you pronounce 来信?
来信 is pronounced láixìn.
Is 来信 an HSK word?
来信 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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