CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

群岛

qúndǎo

group of islands

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

group of islands

archipelago

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 群岛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 群岛 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

在伦敦，我住的饭店靠近巴比肯艺术中心。一次难忘的经验是用报纸包著，吃美味的炸鱼薯条，这在北美人家里是无法复制的。我最喜欢的英国人是奥拉夫斯塔普雷顿和 J.R.R. 托尔金，他们分别是科幻作家和奇幻作家。我曾经透过卫星图像勘察过不列颠群岛，英格兰西南部是一个非常有趣的地区，那里有古朴的城镇和小村庄。zài lún dūn， wǒ zhù de fàn diàn kào jìn bā bǐ kěn yì shù zhōng xīn。 yī cì nán wàng de jīng yàn shì yòng bào zhǐ bāo zhù， chī měi wèi de zhá yú shǔ tiáo， zhè zài běi měi rén jiā lǐ shì wú fǎ fù zhì de。 wǒ zuì xǐ huān de yīng guó rén shì ào lā fū sī tǎ pǔ léi dùn hé J.R.R. tuō ěr jīn， tā men fēn bié shì kē huàn zuò jiā hé qí huàn zuò jiā。 wǒ céng jīng tòu guò wèi xīng tú xiàng kān chá guò bù liè diān qún dǎo， yīng gé lán xī nán bù shì yí gè fēi cháng yǒu qù de dì qū， nà lǐ yǒu gǔ piáo de chéng zhèn hé xiǎo cūn zhuāng。

In London, my hotel was near the Barbican Centre. A memorable event was eating delicious fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, which back home, North Americans could not replicate. My favourite Brits are Olaf Stapledon and J.R.R. Tolkien, respectively a sci-fi writer and a fantasy writer. I have surveyed the British Isles via satellite imagery, and a really interesting area is southwestern England, where there are quaint towns and hamlets.

怎麽会有麦当劳群岛？zěn mó huì yǒu mài dāng láo qún dǎo？

No published English translation for this sentence.

为什麽会有三明治群岛？wèi shén mó huì yǒu sān míng zhì qún dǎo？

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 群岛.

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

Directly before

不列颠群岛1
三明治群岛1
麦当劳群岛1

Directly after

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

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 群岛

What does 群岛 mean in Chinese?

群岛 (qúndǎo) means group of islands.

How do you pronounce 群岛?

群岛 is pronounced qúndǎo.

Is 群岛 an HSK word?

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

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