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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
祈愿
to pray
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pray
02
to pray for sth
03
to wish sth
04
prayer
05
wish
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 祈愿 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 祈愿 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 祈愿.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 祈愿.
Directly before
- 的祈愿1
- 为祈愿1
Directly after
- 祈愿少女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 祈愿
What does 祈愿 mean in Chinese?
祈愿 (qíyuàn) means to pray.
How do you pronounce 祈愿?
祈愿 is pronounced qíyuàn.
Is 祈愿 an HSK word?
祈愿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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