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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

紧紧

jǐnjǐn

closely

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

closely

02

tightly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 紧紧 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 紧紧 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

门紧紧地闭上了。mén jǐn jǐn dì bì shàng le。

The door is shut fast.

我紧紧地抱著他哭。wǒ jǐn jǐn dì bào zhù tā kū。

I hugged him tightly and cried.

友谊紧紧联系着我们。yǒu yì jǐn jǐn lián xì zhe wǒ men。

We are bound to each other by a close friendship.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 紧紧.

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

Directly before

  • 我紧紧2
  • 包裹紧紧1
  • 门紧紧1
  • 陌生人紧紧1
  • 人紧紧1

Directly after

  • 紧紧地2
  • 紧紧绑1
  • 紧紧地闭1
  • 紧紧相连1
  • 紧紧联系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 紧紧

What does 紧紧 mean in Chinese?

紧紧 (jǐnjǐn) means closely.

How do you pronounce 紧紧?

紧紧 is pronounced jǐnjǐn.

Is 紧紧 an HSK word?

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

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