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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
用作
to use for the purpose of
IN A VIDEO用作
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to use for the purpose of
02
to serve as
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 用作 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 用作 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tax cuts are often used as a major fiscal tool to stimulate the economy.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 用作.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 用作.
Directly before
- 被用作1
- 墨汁用作1
Directly after
- 用作刺激1
- 用作染料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 用作
What does 用作 mean in Chinese?
用作 (yòngzuò) means to use for the purpose of.
How do you pronounce 用作?
用作 is pronounced yòngzuò.
Is 用作 an HSK word?
用作 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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