CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

满脸

mǎnliǎn

across one's whole face

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

across one's whole face

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 满脸 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 满脸 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他因为发烧而满脸通红。tā yīn wèi fā shāo ér mǎn liǎn tōng hóng。

Fever flushed his cheeks.

当他公开宣布要与巴布罗结婚时，他几乎让祖母心脏病发作，让姑姑的眼珠子都快瞪出来了；然而，他的妹妹却满脸骄傲地笑了。dāng tā gōng kāi xuān bù yào yǔ bā bù luó jié hūn shí， tā jī hū ràng zǔ mǔ xīn zàng bìng fā zuò， ràng gū gū de yǎn zhū zi dōu kuài dèng chū lái le； rán ér， tā de mèi mèi què mǎn liǎn jiāo ào dì xiào le。

When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.

小朋友最爱番茄肉酱义大利面，吃得满脸都是红红的酱汁。xiǎo péng yǒu zuì ài fān qié ròu jiàng yì dà lì miàn， chī dé mǎn liǎn dōu shì hóng hóng de jiàng zhī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 满脸.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 满脸.

Directly before

而满脸1
得满脸1
却满脸1

Directly after

满脸通红1
满脸都1
满脸骄傲地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 满脸

What does 满脸 mean in Chinese?

满脸 (mǎnliǎn) means across one's whole face.

How do you pronounce 满脸?

满脸 is pronounced mǎnliǎn.

Is 满脸 an HSK word?

满脸 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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