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瓦斯

wǎsī

gas (loanword)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

gas (loanword)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 瓦斯 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 瓦斯 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我闻到瓦斯味。wǒ wén dào wǎ sī wèi。

I smell gas.

你煮饭用瓦斯还是电?nǐ zhǔ fàn yòng wǎ sī hái shì diàn?

Do you cook by gas or electricity?

你每个月的瓦斯费多少钱?nǐ měi gè yuè de wǎ sī fèi duō shǎo qián?

How much is your monthly gas bill?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 瓦斯.

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

Directly before

  • 的瓦斯1
  • 闻到瓦斯1
  • 用瓦斯1
  • 是瓦斯1

Directly after

  • 瓦斯费1
  • 瓦斯味1
  • 瓦斯还是1
  • 瓦斯外泄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 瓦斯

What does 瓦斯 mean in Chinese?

瓦斯 (wǎsī) means gas (loanword).

How do you pronounce 瓦斯?

瓦斯 is pronounced wǎsī.

Is 瓦斯 an HSK word?

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

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