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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

获知

huòzhī

to learn of (an event)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to learn of (an event)

02

to hear about (sth)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 获知 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 获知 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你什麽时候获知玛丽离婚?nǐ shén mó shí hòu huò zhī mǎ lì lí hūn?

When did you learn of Mary's divorce?

脾气不好的人总是最晚获知任何讯息。pí qì bù hǎo de rén zǒng shì zuì wǎn huò zhī rèn hé xùn xī。

Irritable men are always the last to know about things.

我们从报纸中获知每天发生的重大事件。wǒ men cóng bào zhǐ zhōng huò zhī měi tiān fā shēng de zhòng dà shì jiàn。

We are informed by newspapers of the major events that take place every day.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 获知.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 获知.

Directly before

  • 时候获知1
  • 中获知1
  • 晚获知1

Directly after

  • 获知玛丽1
  • 获知每天1
  • 获知任何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 获知

What does 获知 mean in Chinese?

获知 (huòzhī) means to learn of (an event).

How do you pronounce 获知?

获知 is pronounced huòzhī.

Is 获知 an HSK word?

获知 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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