They killed time playing cards.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
玩牌
to play cards
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to play cards
02
to play mahjong
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 玩牌 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 玩牌 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It is wrong to cheat at cards.
They invited me to play cards.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 玩牌.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 玩牌.
Directly before
- 他们玩牌1
- 去玩牌1
Directly after
- 玩牌来1
- 玩牌作弊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 玩牌
What does 玩牌 mean in Chinese?
玩牌 (wánpái) means to play cards.
How do you pronounce 玩牌?
玩牌 is pronounced wánpái.
Is 玩牌 an HSK word?
玩牌 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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