CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

死胡同

sǐhútòng

dead end

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

dead end

blind alley

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 死胡同 actually appears in real sentences.

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

这是个死胡同。zhè shì gè sǐ hú tòng。

It's a dead end.

那是 2025 年 4 月 26 日。下午两点前，阳光明媚，万里无云。我来到我家附近的死胡同，静静地漫步。我欣赏著花园，这让我想起了道家思想：人如何影射天：樱花的簇簇花海，如同远处的星云。人其实不必走太远。我的白人邻居芭芭拉正站在她家车道上。她和丈夫肯恩正要出门去买鸡蛋。他们家很爱吃鸡蛋。nà shì 2025 nián 4 yuè 26 rì。 xià wǔ liǎng diǎn qián， yáng guāng míng mèi， wàn lǐ wú yún。 wǒ lái dào wǒ jiā fù jìn de sǐ hú tòng， jìng jìng dì màn bù。 wǒ xīn shǎng zhù huā yuán， zhè ràng wǒ xiǎng qǐ le dào jiā sī xiǎng： rén rú hé yǐng shè tiān： yīng huā de cù cù huā hǎi， rú tóng yuǎn chù de xīng yún。 rén qí shí bù bì zǒu tài yuǎn。 wǒ de bái rén lín jū bā bā lā zhèng zhàn zài tā jiā chē dào shàng。 tā hé zhàng fū kěn ēn zhèng yào chū mén qù mǎi jī dàn。 tā men jiā hěn ài chī jī dàn。

It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 死胡同.

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

Directly before

个死胡同1
的死胡同1

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 死胡同

What does 死胡同 mean in Chinese?

死胡同 (sǐhútòng) means dead end.

How do you pronounce 死胡同?

死胡同 is pronounced sǐhútòng.

Is 死胡同 an HSK word?

死胡同 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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