I prefer cats to dogs.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
比起
compared with
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
compared with
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 比起 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 比起 appears in 34 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He prefers the country to the town.
He prefers poetry to fiction.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 比起.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 比起.
Directly before
- 这幅比起1
Directly after
- 比起父母2
- 比起果汁2
- 比起歌舞伎1
- 比起出门1
- 比起奶酪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 比起
What does 比起 mean in Chinese?
比起 (bǐqǐ) means compared with.
How do you pronounce 比起?
比起 is pronounced bǐqǐ.
Is 比起 an HSK word?
比起 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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