The vase crashed and shattered into pieces.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
花瓶
flower vase
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
flower vase
02
(fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 花瓶 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 花瓶 appears in 31 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Put some water into the vase.
The vase was broken to pieces.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 花瓶.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 花瓶.
Directly before
- 的花瓶6
- 把花瓶3
- 在花瓶3
- 一个花瓶2
- 这个花瓶2
Directly after
- 花瓶里4
- 花瓶打破2
- 花瓶被2
- 花瓶放在2
- 花瓶摔成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 花瓶
What does 花瓶 mean in Chinese?
花瓶 (huāpíng) means flower vase.
How do you pronounce 花瓶?
花瓶 is pronounced huāpíng.
Is 花瓶 an HSK word?
花瓶 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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