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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

沙尘

shāchén

airborne sand and dust

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

airborne sand and dust

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 沙尘 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 沙尘 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

泳镜能防沙尘进眼。yǒng jìng néng fáng shā chén jìn yǎn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

风很大,跑道上的沙尘都被吹得满天飞。fēng hěn dà, pǎo dào shàng de shā chén dōu bèi chuī dé mǎn tiān fēi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 沙尘.

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

Directly before

  • 的沙尘1
  • 能防沙尘1

Directly after

  • 沙尘都1
  • 沙尘进眼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 沙尘

What does 沙尘 mean in Chinese?

沙尘 (shāchén) means airborne sand and dust.

How do you pronounce 沙尘?

沙尘 is pronounced shāchén.

Is 沙尘 an HSK word?

沙尘 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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