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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

正向

zhèngxiàng

forward (direction)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

forward (direction)

02

positive (thinking, mood, values etc)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 正向 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 正向 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他们正向森林而去。tā men zhèng xiàng sēn lín ér qù。

They are making for the forest.

俄罗斯正向叙利亚派遣战舰、海军陆战队和登陆艇坦克,并向伊朗派遣潜舰装备。é luó sī zhèng xiàng xù lì yà pài qiǎn zhàn jiàn、 hǎi jūn lù zhàn duì hé dēng lù tǐng tǎn kè, bìng xiàng yī lǎng pài qiǎn qián jiàn zhuāng bèi。

Russia is sending battleships, marines, and landing craft tanks against Syria, and submarine equiment against Iran.

保持正向。bǎo chí zhèng xiàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 正向.

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

Directly before

  • 他们正向1
  • 保持正向1
  • 俄罗斯正向1

Directly after

  • 正向森林1
  • 正向叙利亚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 正向

What does 正向 mean in Chinese?

正向 (zhèngxiàng) means forward (direction).

How do you pronounce 正向?

正向 is pronounced zhèngxiàng.

Is 正向 an HSK word?

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

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