He sat quietly at his desk, flipping through the yellowed photo album.
翻阅
to thumb through
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Meaning and common use
to thumb through
to flip through (a book)
How 翻阅 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 翻阅 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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Words that keep company with 翻阅.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 翻阅.
Directly before
- 在翻阅3
- 里翻阅1
- 会翻阅1
- 仔细翻阅1
- 一边翻阅1
Directly after
- 翻阅著2
- 翻阅了1
- 翻阅日记1
- 翻阅档案1
- 翻阅履历1
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.
About 翻阅
What does 翻阅 mean in Chinese?
翻阅 (fānyuè) means to thumb through.
How do you pronounce 翻阅?
翻阅 is pronounced fānyuè.
Is 翻阅 an HSK word?
翻阅 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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