CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

穿戴

chuāndài

to dress; to be dressed

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to dress; to be dressed

clothing; apparel

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 穿戴 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 穿戴 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

艾美想穿戴新的衣物。ài měi xiǎng chuān dài xīn de yī wù。

Amy wants something new to wear.

最初的旗袍遮住了女性身体的大部分，只露出头部、手和脚趾头，为的是无论穿戴者的年龄如何,都能隐藏她的身材。zuì chū de qí páo zhē zhù le nǚ xìng shēn tǐ de dà bù fèn， zhǐ lù chū tóu bù、 shǒu hé jiǎo zhǐ tóu， wèi de shì wú lùn chuān dài zhě de nián líng rú hé, dōu néng yǐn cáng tā de shēn cái。

The original qipao covered most of a woman's body, revealing only the head, the hands and the tips of the toes, in order to conceal the figure of the wearer regardless of her age.

用铜做镜子，可以整理好一个人的穿戴；用别人作自己的镜子，可以知道自己每一天的得失；用历史作为镜子，可以知道历史上的兴盛衰亡。yòng tóng zuò jìng zi， kě yǐ zhěng lǐ hǎo yí gè rén de chuān dài； yòng bié rén zuò zì jǐ de jìng zi， kě yǐ zhī dào zì jǐ měi yī tiān de dé shī； yòng lì shǐ zuò wéi jìng zi， kě yǐ zhī dào lì shǐ shàng de xīng shèng shuāi wáng。

With bronze as a mirror one can dress neatly; with the example of another person one can see the advantages and disadvantages of himself; from the mirror of history one can know the reason for the rise and fall of states.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 穿戴.

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

Directly before

无论穿戴1
的穿戴1
时穿戴1
艾美想穿戴1
防护服穿戴1

Directly after

穿戴者1
穿戴华服1
穿戴新1
穿戴过于1
穿戴防护服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 穿戴

What does 穿戴 mean in Chinese?

穿戴 (chuāndài) means to dress; to be dressed.

How do you pronounce 穿戴?

穿戴 is pronounced chuāndài.

Is 穿戴 an HSK word?

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

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