According to Rafael Leitão, it is very difficult for a professional chess player to get sponsorship in Brazil, because chess is not popular in our country.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
棋手
chess player
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
chess player
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 棋手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 棋手 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 棋手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 棋手.
Directly before
- 职业棋手1
- 那位棋手1
Directly after
- 棋手很难1
- 棋手年仅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 棋手
What does 棋手 mean in Chinese?
棋手 (qíshǒu) means chess player.
How do you pronounce 棋手?
棋手 is pronounced qíshǒu.
Is 棋手 an HSK word?
棋手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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