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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

瞥见

piējiàn

to glimpse

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to glimpse

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 瞥见 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我从火车车窗瞥见了富士山。wǒ cóng huǒ chē chē chuāng piē jiàn le fù shì shān。

I caught a glimpse of Mt. Fuji from the window of the train.

电车驶过的瞬间,汤姆瞥见了驾驶员的身影。diàn chē shǐ guò de shùn jiān, tāng mǔ piē jiàn le jià shǐ yuán de shēn yǐng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 瞥见.

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

Directly before

  • 车窗瞥见1
  • 汤姆瞥见1

Directly after

  • 瞥见了2
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 瞥见

What does 瞥见 mean in Chinese?

瞥见 (piējiàn) means to glimpse.

How do you pronounce 瞥见?

瞥见 is pronounced piējiàn.

Is 瞥见 an HSK word?

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

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