CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

称之为

chēngzhīwéi

to call it

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to call it

known as

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 称之为 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 称之为 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

什麽样的人会将种族灭绝者，称之为“英雄”？shén mó yàng de rén huì jiāng zhǒng zú miè jué zhě， chēng zhī wèi “ yīng xióng ”？

What kind of person looks up to a genocidal killer and calls him a hero?

如果我们知道我们在做什么，那么这不能称之为研究，是吗？rú guǒ wǒ men zhī dào wǒ men zài zuò shén me， nà me zhè bù néng chēng zhī wèi yán jiū， shì ma？

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

到了每年的年底即年三十的时候，就不仅是新旧两天的更替，也是新旧岁的更替，称之为“交子”。dào le měi nián de nián dǐ jí nián sān shí de shí hòu， jiù bù jǐn shì xīn jiù liǎng tiān de gēng tì， yě shì xīn jiù suì de gēng tì， chēng zhī wèi “ jiāo zi ”。

Arriving at the end of each lunar year wasn't just a new day taking over from the previous one, but also a new year taking over from the previous one, and this was called 'first exchange'.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 称之为.

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

Directly before

不能称之为1
人们称之为1
人称之为1
越南人称之为1
可称之为1

Directly after

称之为研究1
称之为学院1
称之为越南战争1
称之为美国1
称之为长度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 称之为

What does 称之为 mean in Chinese?

称之为 (chēngzhīwéi) means to call it.

How do you pronounce 称之为?

称之为 is pronounced chēngzhīwéi.

Is 称之为 an HSK word?

称之为 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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