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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

细看

xìkàn

to peer

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to peer

02

to scan

03

to examine carefully

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 细看 actually appears in real sentences.

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

他拿了面镜子细看自己的舌头。tā ná le miàn jìng zi xì kàn zì jǐ de shé tou。

He picked up a mirror and examined his tongue.

约翰的母亲看起来很年轻,别人不细看倒以为她是约翰的姐姐。yuē hàn de mǔ qīn kàn qǐ lái hěn nián qīng, bié rén bù xì kàn dào yǐ wéi tā shì yuē hàn de jiě jiě。

John's mother looks so young that she is often mistaken for his elder sister.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 细看.

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

Directly before

  • 镜子细看1
  • 不细看1

Directly after

  • 细看自己1
  • 细看倒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 细看

What does 细看 mean in Chinese?

细看 (xìkàn) means to peer.

How do you pronounce 细看?

细看 is pronounced xìkàn.

Is 细看 an HSK word?

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

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