We're friends from way back.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老朋友
old friend
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
old friend
02
(slang) period
03
menstruation
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老朋友 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老朋友 appears in 23 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We're friends from way back.
I saw an old friend of mine.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老朋友.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老朋友.
Directly before
- 的老朋友8
- 一个老朋友6
- 是老朋友3
- 碰见老朋友1
- 一位老朋友1
Directly after
- 老朋友来3
- 老朋友了2
- 老朋友一样1
- 老朋友一起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 老朋友
What does 老朋友 mean in Chinese?
老朋友 (lǎopéngyou) means old friend.
How do you pronounce 老朋友?
老朋友 is pronounced lǎopéngyou.
Is 老朋友 an HSK word?
老朋友 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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