They are having a chat.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
聊天
to chat; to gossip
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to chat; to gossip
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 聊天 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 聊天 appears in 40 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I have no friend to talk with.
We talked and talked until the day broke.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 聊天.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 聊天.
Directly before
- 朋友聊天4
- 们聊天2
- 女生聊天2
- 你聊天2
- 想聊天2
Directly after
- 聊天的3
- 聊天吗3
- 聊天了2
- 聊天直到1
- 聊天取代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 聊天
What does 聊天 mean in Chinese?
聊天 (liáotiān) means to chat; to gossip.
How do you pronounce 聊天?
聊天 is pronounced liáotiān.
Is 聊天 an HSK word?
聊天 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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