The shadow of the stick is visible.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
立竿见影
lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom)
02
fig. to get instant results
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 立竿见影 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 立竿见影 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I like this work because you see the result immediately; it's very rewarding.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 立竿见影.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 立竿见影.
Directly before
- 它立竿见影1
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 立竿见影
What does 立竿见影 mean in Chinese?
立竿见影 (lìgānjiànyǐng) means lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom).
How do you pronounce 立竿见影?
立竿见影 is pronounced lìgānjiànyǐng.
Is 立竿见影 an HSK word?
立竿见影 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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