They were marooned on a desert isle.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
荒岛
barren or uninhabited island
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
barren or uninhabited island
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 荒岛 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 荒岛 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
They were marooned on a desert isle.
If you were stranded on a desert island, what books would you want to have with you to read?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 荒岛.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 荒岛.
Directly before
- 一座荒岛2
- 一个荒岛1
Directly after
- 荒岛上3
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 荒岛
What does 荒岛 mean in Chinese?
荒岛 (huāngdǎo) means barren or uninhabited island.
How do you pronounce 荒岛?
荒岛 is pronounced huāngdǎo.
Is 荒岛 an HSK word?
荒岛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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