Tom sat up slowly.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
缓缓
slowly
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
slowly
02
unhurriedly
03
little by little
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 缓缓 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 缓缓 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami lowered Layla down the mountain slowly.
She slowly disappeared into the foggy forest.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 缓缓.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 缓缓.
Directly before
- 上缓缓1
- 车缓缓1
- 萨米缓缓1
- 正缓缓1
- 时间缓缓1
Directly after
- 缓缓地2
- 缓缓移动1
- 缓缓地把蕾1
- 缓缓展开1
- 缓缓流逝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 缓缓
What does 缓缓 mean in Chinese?
缓缓 (huǎnhuǎn) means slowly.
How do you pronounce 缓缓?
缓缓 is pronounced huǎnhuǎn.
Is 缓缓 an HSK word?
缓缓 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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