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死棋

sǐqí

dead piece (in Chess)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

dead piece (in Chess)

02

stupid move

03

hopeless case

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 死棋 actually appears in real sentences.

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

你既走这一步死棋,便注定了失败的结果。nǐ jì zǒu zhè yī bù sǐ qí, biàn zhù dìng le shī bài de jié guǒ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

本来以为这是一条有守有攻的妙计,没想到阴错阳差的竟成了一步死棋。běn lái yǐ wéi zhè shì yī tiáo yǒu shǒu yǒu gōng de miào jì, méi xiǎng dào yīn cuò yáng chā de jìng chéng le yī bù sǐ qí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 死棋.

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

Directly before

  • 一步死棋2

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 死棋

What does 死棋 mean in Chinese?

死棋 (sǐqí) means dead piece (in Chess).

How do you pronounce 死棋?

死棋 is pronounced sǐqí.

Is 死棋 an HSK word?

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

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