CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

神明

shénmíng

deities

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

deities

gods

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 神明 actually appears in real sentences.

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我向天地神明发誓我的话绝无一丝虚假。wǒ xiàng tiān dì shén míng fā shì wǒ de huà jué wú yī sī xū jiǎ。

I'm not lying. I swear to God!

孔子说："像夏禹的为人，我找不到可以指责的漏洞。自己吃著菲薄的饮食，而却用丰厚祭品祭拜祖先与神明；自己平时穿粗劣的衣裳，而在祭祀时穿戴华服礼帽；自己住小房子，却尽力开通水道沟渠。像夏禹这样的人，我实在找不到可以指责的漏洞了。"kǒng zi shuō：" xiàng xià yǔ de wéi rén， wǒ zhǎo bú dào kě yǐ zhǐ zé de lòu dòng。 zì jǐ chī zhù fěi bó de yǐn shí， ér què yòng fēng hòu jì pǐn jì bài zǔ xiān yǔ shén míng； zì jǐ píng shí chuān cū liè de yī shang， ér zài jì sì shí chuān dài huá fú lǐ mào； zì jǐ zhù xiǎo fáng zi， què jìn lì kāi tōng shuǐ dào gōu qú。 xiàng xià yǔ zhè yàng de rén， wǒ shí zài zhǎo bú dào kě yǐ zhǐ zé de lòu dòng le。"

Confucius said: " Yu the Great's conduct, I could not point out any flaws. He consumes meager amount of food, while offering boastful riches to the Gods and ancestors; He always don the crudest attire, but wears lavish garments when worshipping; He resides in a small house, yet forges water ways and ditches with all his might. Figures like Yu the Great, I honestly cannot point out any reprehensible flaws."

除了安拉再没有其他神明，默罕默德是他的先知。chú le ān lā zài méi yǒu qí tā shén míng， mò hǎn mò dé shì tā de xiān zhī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 神明.

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

Directly before

与神明1
其他神明1
天地神明1

Directly after

神明发誓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 神明

What does 神明 mean in Chinese?

神明 (shénmíng) means deities.

How do you pronounce 神明?

神明 is pronounced shénmíng.

Is 神明 an HSK word?

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

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