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筵席

yánxí

banquet

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

banquet

02

mat for sitting

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 筵席 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 筵席 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

天下无不散之筵席。tiān xià wú bù sàn zhī yán xí。

All good things must come to an end.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 筵席.

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

Directly before

  • 之筵席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 筵席

What does 筵席 mean in Chinese?

筵席 (yánxí) means banquet.

How do you pronounce 筵席?

筵席 is pronounced yánxí.

Is 筵席 an HSK word?

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

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