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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

案子

ànzi

long table; counter

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

long table; counter

02

(coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 案子 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我把案子跟你说说。wǒ bǎ àn zi gēn nǐ shuō shuō。

I'll tell you about the case.

你必须秉公裁决这个案子。nǐ bì xū bǐng gōng cái jué zhè ge àn zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 案子.

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

Directly before

  • 这个案子1
  • 把案子1

Directly after

  • 案子跟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 案子

What does 案子 mean in Chinese?

案子 (ànzi) means long table; counter.

How do you pronounce 案子?

案子 is pronounced ànzi.

Is 案子 an HSK word?

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

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