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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
海阔天空
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas
02
the whole wide world
03
chatting about everything under the sun
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 海阔天空 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 海阔天空.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 海阔天空.
Directly before
- 退一步海阔天空2
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 海阔天空
What does 海阔天空 mean in Chinese?
海阔天空 (hǎikuòtiānkōng) means wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas.
How do you pronounce 海阔天空?
海阔天空 is pronounced hǎikuòtiānkōng.
Is 海阔天空 an HSK word?
海阔天空 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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