Money takes a long time to earn, but you can spend it in no time.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
花掉
to spend (time, money)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to spend (time, money)
02
to waste
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 花掉 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 花掉 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 花掉.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 花掉.
Directly before
- 就花掉1
- 要花掉1
Directly after
- 花掉它1
- 花掉一整天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 花掉
What does 花掉 mean in Chinese?
花掉 (huādiào) means to spend (time, money).
How do you pronounce 花掉?
花掉 is pronounced huādiào.
Is 花掉 an HSK word?
花掉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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