He sat next to the stream.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
河边
river bank
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
river bank
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 河边 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 河边 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
His house is by a river.
The giraffe was walking along the river bank.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 河边.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 河边.
Directly before
- 在河边5
- 去河边4
- 带到河边2
- 到河边2
- 紧靠河边1
Directly after
- 河边钓鱼2
- 河边的1
- 河边那里1
- 河边可是1
- 河边怎么样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 河边
What does 河边 mean in Chinese?
河边 (hébiān) means river bank.
How do you pronounce 河边?
河边 is pronounced hébiān.
Is 河边 an HSK word?
河边 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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