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精光

jīngguāng

nothing left (money, food etc)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

nothing left (money, food etc)

02

all finished

03

bright and shiny

04

radiant

05

glorious

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 精光 actually appears in real sentences.

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

票不到一个钟头就卖得精光。piào bú dào yí gè zhōng tóu jiù mài dé jīng guāng。

All the tickets sold out in an hour.

看着自己的房子被烧得精光,他顿时丧失了理智。kàn zhe zì jǐ de fáng zi bèi shāo dé jīng guāng, tā dùn shí sàng shī le lǐ zhì。

He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 精光.

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

Directly before

  • 得精光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 精光

What does 精光 mean in Chinese?

精光 (jīngguāng) means nothing left (money, food etc).

How do you pronounce 精光?

精光 is pronounced jīngguāng.

Is 精光 an HSK word?

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

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