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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

用字

yòngzì

to use letters

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to use letters

02

to use words

03

diction

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 用字 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我用字卡来学德文生字。wǒ yòng zì kǎ lái xué dé wén shēng zì。

I use flash cards to study my German vocabulary.

往后对外回应与声明用字遣词将更加谨慎,务求每一段文字皆能清楚无误地传达本公司立场,避免因表达不周而造成各界困扰。wǎng hòu duì wài huí yìng yǔ shēng míng yòng zì qiǎn cí jiāng gèng jiā jǐn shèn, wù qiú měi yī duàn wén zì jiē néng qīng chǔ wú wù dì chuán dá běn gōng sī lì chǎng, bì miǎn yīn biǎo dá bù zhōu ér zào chéng gè jiè kùn rǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 用字.

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

Directly before

  • 我用字1
  • 声明用字1

Directly after

  • 用字卡来学1
  • 用字遣词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 用字

What does 用字 mean in Chinese?

用字 (yòngzì) means to use letters.

How do you pronounce 用字?

用字 is pronounced yòngzì.

Is 用字 an HSK word?

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

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