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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

横渡

héngdù

to cross (a body of water)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to cross (a body of water)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 横渡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 横渡 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他用30天横渡了太平洋。tā yòng 30 tiān héng dù le tài píng yáng。

He crossed the Pacific Ocean in thirty days.

他是唯一一个游泳横渡英吉利海峡的美国人。tā shì wéi yī yí gè yóu yǒng héng dù yīng jí lì hǎi xiá de měi guó rén。

He is the only American who has swum the English Channel.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 横渡.

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

Directly before

  • 游泳横渡1
  • 天横渡1

Directly after

  • 横渡英吉利海峡1
  • 横渡了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 横渡

What does 横渡 mean in Chinese?

横渡 (héngdù) means to cross (a body of water).

How do you pronounce 横渡?

横渡 is pronounced héngdù.

Is 横渡 an HSK word?

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

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