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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

蠢事

chǔnshì

folly

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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folly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 蠢事 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蠢事 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我觉得你在做蠢事。wǒ jué de nǐ zài zuò chǔn shì。

I think what you're doing is stupid.

只能说那是一件蠢事。zhǐ néng shuō nà shì yī jiàn chǔn shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 蠢事.

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

Directly before

  • 做蠢事1
  • 一件蠢事1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 蠢事

What does 蠢事 mean in Chinese?

蠢事 (chǔnshì) means folly.

How do you pronounce 蠢事?

蠢事 is pronounced chǔnshì.

Is 蠢事 an HSK word?

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

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