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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

点着

diǎnzháo

to light (a candle, cigarette etc)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to light (a candle, cigarette etc)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 点着 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 点着 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我昨晚在床上看书的时候点着灯就睡了。wǒ zuó wǎn zài chuáng shàng kàn shū de shí hòu diǎn zháo dēng jiù shuì le。

While I was reading in bed last night, I fell asleep with the light on.

房间里有十根点着的蜡烛,风吹灭三根,最后还剩几根蜡烛?fáng jiān lǐ yǒu shí gēn diǎn zháo de là zhú, fēng chuī miè sān gēn, zuì hòu hái shèng jǐ gēn là zhú?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 点着.

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

Directly before

  • 时候点着1
  • 十根点着1

Directly after

  • 点着灯1
  • 点着的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 点着

What does 点着 mean in Chinese?

点着 (diǎnzháo) means to light (a candle, cigarette etc).

How do you pronounce 点着?

点着 is pronounced diǎnzháo.

Is 点着 an HSK word?

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

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