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照镜子

zhàojìngzi

to look in the mirror

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to look in the mirror

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 照镜子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 照镜子 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

照镜子。zhào jìng zi。

Look in the mirror.

照照镜子吧,老兄。zhào zhào jìng zi ba, lǎo xiōng。

Look in the mirror, pal.

在你说别人坏话之前,自己先照照镜子吧。zài nǐ shuō bié rén huài huà zhī qián, zì jǐ xiān zhào zhào jìng zi ba。

Before you speak ill of people, look at yourself in the mirror.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 照镜子.

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

Directly before

  • 先照照镜子1
  • 照照镜子1

Directly after

  • 照镜子吧2
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 照镜子

What does 照镜子 mean in Chinese?

照镜子 (zhàojìngzi) means to look in the mirror.

How do you pronounce 照镜子?

照镜子 is pronounced zhàojìngzi.

Is 照镜子 an HSK word?

照镜子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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