CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

画布

huàbù

canvas (artist's painting surface)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

canvas (artist's painting surface)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 画布 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 画布 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

纽约市出现了一种新的艺术潮流，将古老的钩编工艺带到了街头。在那里，传统上，墙壁和栅栏一直是涂鸦艺术家的画布。niǔ yuē shì chū xiàn le yī zhǒng xīn de yì shù cháo liú， jiāng gǔ lǎo de gōu biān gōng yì dài dào le jiē tóu。 zài nà lǐ， chuán tǒng shàng， qiáng bì hé zhà lán yì zhí shì tú yā yì shù jiā de huà bù。

A new art trend in New York City takes the age-old craft of crocheting to the streets, where traditionally walls and fences have been serving as canvases for graffiti artists.

他将画笔在画布上轻轻一挥。tā jiāng huà bǐ zài huà bù shàng qīng qīng yī huī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

在画布上第一次下笔时的显色太强烈，让我很惊讶。zài huà bù shàng dì yī cì xià bǐ shí de xiǎn sè tài qiáng liè， ràng wǒ hěn jīng yà。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 画布.

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

Directly before

在画布3
的画布1

Directly after

画布上2
画布前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 画布

What does 画布 mean in Chinese?

画布 (huàbù) means canvas (artist's painting surface).

How do you pronounce 画布?

画布 is pronounced huàbù.

Is 画布 an HSK word?

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

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