Home用语
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

用语

yòngyǔ

choice of words

IN A VIDEO用语

See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.

DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

choice of words

02

wording

03

phraseology

04

term

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 用语 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 用语 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

几近失传的中华礼仪用语。jǐ jìn shī chuán de zhōng huá lǐ yí yòng yǔ。

Nearly lost Chinese etiquette terms.

「被告人」一词是法律用语。「bèi gào rén」 yī cí shì fǎ lǜ yòng yǔ。

"The accused" is a legal term.

让我们讲个人语及灵用语吧!ràng wǒ men jiǎng gè rén yǔ jí líng yòng yǔ ba!

Let's speak Vabungula and Yuelami!

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 用语.

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

Directly before

  • 法律用语1
  • 灵用语1
  • 礼貌用语1
  • 礼仪用语1
  • 网络用语1

Directly after

  • 用语吧2
  • 用语还是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 用语

What does 用语 mean in Chinese?

用语 (yòngyǔ) means choice of words.

How do you pronounce 用语?

用语 is pronounced yòngyǔ.

Is 用语 an HSK word?

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

SEE IT IN CONTEXT

Turn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.

Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.

Upload a video