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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

松动

sōngdòng

loose

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

loose

02

slack

03

(fig.) to soften (policies, tone of voice)

04

to give some slack

05

(of a place) not crowded

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 松动 actually appears in real sentences.

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

会议气氛僵著,他主动提出替代方案,僵局才终於松动。huì yì qì fēn jiāng zhù, tā zhǔ dòng tí chū tì dài fāng àn, jiāng jú cái zhōng yú sōng dòng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

听到那句话时,他的神情微微松动,像是被击中了某个软处。tīng dào nà jù huà shí, tā de shén qíng wēi wēi sōng dòng, xiàng shì bèi jī zhòng le mǒu gè ruǎn chù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 松动.

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

Directly before

  • 微微松动1
  • 於松动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 松动

What does 松动 mean in Chinese?

松动 (sōngdòng) means loose.

How do you pronounce 松动?

松动 is pronounced sōngdòng.

Is 松动 an HSK word?

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

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