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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
海纳百川
all rivers run into the sea
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
all rivers run into the sea
02
use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 海纳百川 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 海纳百川.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 海纳百川.
Directly before
- 文化海纳百川1
- 个海纳百川1
Directly after
- 海纳百川的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 海纳百川
What does 海纳百川 mean in Chinese?
海纳百川 (hǎinàbǎichuān) means all rivers run into the sea.
How do you pronounce 海纳百川?
海纳百川 is pronounced hǎinàbǎichuān.
Is 海纳百川 an HSK word?
海纳百川 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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