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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

神色

shénsè

expression

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

expression

02

look

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 神色 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我们上班时的情绪,就像坐过山车一样 ﹣ 老板脸上一现出不悦的神色,我们就要吃苦头;老板脸上有了笑容,我们才能松一口气。这样的工作,我不想再干下去了。wǒ men shàng bān shí de qíng xù, jiù xiàng zuò guò shān chē yī yàng ﹣ lǎo bǎn liǎn shàng yī xiàn chū bú yuè de shén sè, wǒ men jiù yào chī kǔ tóu; lǎo bǎn liǎn shàng yǒu le xiào róng, wǒ men cái néng sōng yì kǒu qì。 zhè yàng de gōng zuò, wǒ bù xiǎng zài gàn xià qù le。

I can't keep this up. It's an emotional roller coaster around here and all we have to do is look at the boss's face to know whether everybody is going to be happy or sad.

母亲的脸上可以清清楚楚地看出绝望的神色。mǔ qīn de liǎn shàng kě yǐ qīng qīng chǔ chǔ dì kàn chū jué wàng de shén sè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 神色.

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

Directly before

  • 的神色2

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 神色

What does 神色 mean in Chinese?

神色 (shénsè) means expression.

How do you pronounce 神色?

神色 is pronounced shénsè.

Is 神色 an HSK word?

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

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