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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
比做
to liken to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to liken to
02
to compare to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 比做 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 比做 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.
It's better to do nothing than to do something poorly.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 比做.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 比做.
Directly before
- 生活比做1
- 会比做1
- 做比做1
- 的比做1
Directly after
- 比做畜牲1
- 比做对1
- 比做错1
- 比做的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 比做
What does 比做 mean in Chinese?
比做 (bǐzuò) means to liken to.
How do you pronounce 比做?
比做 is pronounced bǐzuò.
Is 比做 an HSK word?
比做 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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