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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

猴年马月

hóuniánmǎyuè

long time off

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

long time off

02

time that will never come

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 猴年马月 actually appears in real sentences.

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

等猴年马月再来吧。děng hóu nián mǎ yuè zài lái ba。

No published English translation for this sentence.

到猴年马月那一个时候。dào hóu nián mǎ yuè nà yí gè shí hòu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 猴年马月.

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

Directly before

  • 等猴年马月1
  • 到猴年马月1

Directly after

  • 猴年马月再来1
  • 猴年马月那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 猴年马月

What does 猴年马月 mean in Chinese?

猴年马月 (hóuniánmǎyuè) means long time off.

How do you pronounce 猴年马月?

猴年马月 is pronounced hóuniánmǎyuè.

Is 猴年马月 an HSK word?

猴年马月 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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