He worked all day yesterday.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
活儿
work
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
work
02
(lots of) things to do
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 活儿 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 活儿 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I've done this all my life.
As soon as he finished his work, he went home.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 活儿.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 活儿.
Directly before
- 的活儿2
- 这活儿2
- 干完活儿2
- 这点活儿1
- 一天活儿1
Directly after
- 活儿就2
- 活儿丢1
- 活儿可以1
- 活儿我1
- 活儿了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 活儿
What does 活儿 mean in Chinese?
活儿 (huór) means work.
How do you pronounce 活儿?
活儿 is pronounced huór.
Is 活儿 an HSK word?
活儿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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