Ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
紫外线
ultraviolet ray
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
ultraviolet ray
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 紫外线 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 紫外线 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The ozone in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 紫外线.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 紫外线.
Directly before
- 吸收紫外线1
Directly after
- 紫外线可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 紫外线
What does 紫外线 mean in Chinese?
紫外线 (zǐwàixiàn) means ultraviolet ray.
How do you pronounce 紫外线?
紫外线 is pronounced zǐwàixiàn.
Is 紫外线 an HSK word?
紫外线 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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