I like candlelight.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
烛光
candle light
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
candle light
02
candle-lit (vigil etc)
03
candela, unit of luminous intensity (cd)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 烛光 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 烛光 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Instead of preparing a dinner by candlelight, she put her boyfriend up for auction on eBay.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 烛光.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 烛光.
Directly before
- 喜欢烛光1
- 准备烛光1
- 的烛光1
Directly after
- 烛光晚餐1
- 烛光照亮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 烛光
What does 烛光 mean in Chinese?
烛光 (zhúguāng) means candle light.
How do you pronounce 烛光?
烛光 is pronounced zhúguāng.
Is 烛光 an HSK word?
烛光 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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