He was drowned.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
淹死
to drown
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to drown
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 淹死 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 淹死 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He almost drowned.
I want to watch you drown.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 淹死.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 淹死.
Directly before
- 被淹死4
- 差一点淹死2
- 你淹死2
- 都淹死1
- 几乎淹死1
Directly after
- 淹死了4
- 淹死在1
- 淹死的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 淹死
What does 淹死 mean in Chinese?
淹死 (yānsǐ) means to drown.
How do you pronounce 淹死?
淹死 is pronounced yānsǐ.
Is 淹死 an HSK word?
淹死 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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