I am short of money.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
缺钱
shortage of money
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
shortage of money
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 缺钱 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 缺钱 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We ran short of money.
He's always running short of cash.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 缺钱.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 缺钱.
Directly before
- 有点缺钱1
- 父亲缺钱1
- 我们缺钱1
- 总是缺钱1
- 都缺钱1
Directly after
- 缺钱了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 缺钱
What does 缺钱 mean in Chinese?
缺钱 (quēqián) means shortage of money.
How do you pronounce 缺钱?
缺钱 is pronounced quēqián.
Is 缺钱 an HSK word?
缺钱 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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