He was out of breath.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
气喘吁吁
to pant
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pant
02
to gasp for breath
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 气喘吁吁 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 气喘吁吁 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Tourists struggle for breath as they climb for two hours to reach the top of a mountain in the Peruvian Andes.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 气喘吁吁.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 气喘吁吁.
Directly before
- 他气喘吁吁1
- 地气喘吁吁1
- 他们气喘吁吁1
Directly after
- 气喘吁吁的1
- 气喘吁吁了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 气喘吁吁
What does 气喘吁吁 mean in Chinese?
气喘吁吁 (qìchuǎnxūxū) means to pant.
How do you pronounce 气喘吁吁?
气喘吁吁 is pronounced qìchuǎnxūxū.
Is 气喘吁吁 an HSK word?
气喘吁吁 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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