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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

行善

xíngshàn

to do good works

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to do good works

02

to be merciful

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 行善 actually appears in real sentences.

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

世上有两件事不能等:一、孝顺 二、行善。shì shàng yǒu liǎng jiàn shì bù néng děng: yī、 xiào shùn èr、 xíng shàn。

There are two things in the world that cannot wait: 1. Filial piety, 2. Doing good.

不管有没有宗教,好人都会行善,而坏人都会作恶;但要是想让好人作恶,那就要靠宗教了。bù guǎn yǒu méi yǒu zōng jiào, hǎo rén dū huì xíng shàn, ér huài rén dū huì zuò è; dàn yào shì xiǎng ràng hǎo rén zuò è, nà jiù yào kào zōng jiào le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 行善.

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

Directly before

  • 会行善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 行善

What does 行善 mean in Chinese?

行善 (xíngshàn) means to do good works.

How do you pronounce 行善?

行善 is pronounced xíngshàn.

Is 行善 an HSK word?

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

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