CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

相当于

xiāngdāngyú

equivalent to

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

equivalent to

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 相当于 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 相当于 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

1美元相当于110日元。1 měi yuán xiāng dāng yú 110 rì yuán。

One dollar is equivalent to 110 yen.

去美国旅行一次相当于她两年的工资。qù měi guó lǚ xíng yī cì xiāng dāng yú tā liǎng nián de gōng zī。

A trip to America was equivalent to a two-year salary for her.

过年吃饺子的习俗和中国古代的计时法有关：中国古代把每一天分为十二个时段，每天开始是子时，相当于晚上11点到凌晨1点。guò nián chī jiǎo zi de xí sú hé zhōng guó gǔ dài de jì shí fǎ yǒu guān： zhōng guó gǔ dài bǎ měi yī tiān fèn wèi shí èr gè shí duàn， měi tiān kāi shǐ shì zi shí， xiāng dāng yú wǎn shàng 11 diǎn dào líng chén 1 diǎn。

The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 相当于.

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

Directly before

美元相当于1
一次相当于1

Directly after

相当于晚上1
相当于她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 相当于

What does 相当于 mean in Chinese?

相当于 (xiāngdāngyú) means equivalent to.

How do you pronounce 相当于?

相当于 is pronounced xiāngdāngyú.

Is 相当于 an HSK word?

相当于 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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