CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

柴门

cháimén

lit. woodcutter's family

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

lit. woodcutter's family

humble background

poor family background

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 柴门 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 柴门 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

柴门霍夫是世界语的创造者。chái mén huò fū shì shì jiè yǔ de chuàng zào zhě。

Zamenhof is the creator of Esperanto.

世界语的创始人柴门霍夫是一个眼科医生。shì jiè yǔ de chuàng shǐ rén chái mén huò fū shì yí gè yǎn kē yī shēng。

Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, was an ophthalmologist.

我们能否指出一种语言诞生的确切日期？你或许会这样说：「真是个奇怪的问题！」然而，这样的日期确实存在：7 月 26 日，世界语日。1887 年的这一天，路德维克莱泽柴门霍夫在华沙出版了一本关於「国际语言」的小册子。wǒ men néng fǒu zhǐ chū yī zhǒng yǔ yán dàn shēng dí què qiè rì qī？ nǐ huò xǔ huì zhè yàng shuō：「zhēn shì gè qí guài de wèn tí！」 rán ér， zhè yàng de rì qī què shí cún zài：7 yuè 26 rì， shì jiè yǔ rì。1887 nián de zhè yī tiān， lù dé wéi kè lái zé chái mén huò fū zài huá shā chū bǎn le yī běn guān yú 「guó jì yǔ yán」 de xiǎo cè zi。

Is it possible to indicate a date on which a language came into life? "What a question!" you will be inclined to say. And yet such a date exists: the 26th of July, the Day of Esperanto. On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language".

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 柴门.

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

Directly before

创始人柴门1
泽柴门1

Directly after

柴门霍夫4

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 柴门

What does 柴门 mean in Chinese?

柴门 (cháimén) means lit. woodcutter's family.

How do you pronounce 柴门?

柴门 is pronounced cháimén.

Is 柴门 an HSK word?

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

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