Tom put down his paintbrush.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
画笔
painting brush
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
painting brush
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 画笔 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 画笔 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom set down his paintbrush and smiled.
We'll be going outside to observe nature for this. Thus, a good pencil, eraser, and possibly a paint brush are required.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 画笔.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 画笔.
Directly before
- 一支画笔1
- 了画笔1
- 著画笔1
- 放下画笔1
- 将画笔1
Directly after
- 画笔是1
- 画笔在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 画笔
What does 画笔 mean in Chinese?
画笔 (huàbǐ) means painting brush.
How do you pronounce 画笔?
画笔 is pronounced huàbǐ.
Is 画笔 an HSK word?
画笔 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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