The poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
残暴
brutal; vicious; ruthless
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
brutal; vicious; ruthless
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 残暴 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 残暴 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Cruelty in young people is fostered by violent movies and PC games.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 残暴.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 残暴.
Directly before
- 任凭残暴1
- 的残暴1
Directly after
- 残暴的1
- 残暴行为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 残暴
What does 残暴 mean in Chinese?
残暴 (cánbào) means brutal; vicious; ruthless.
How do you pronounce 残暴?
残暴 is pronounced cánbào.
Is 残暴 an HSK word?
残暴 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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