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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

衰亡

shuāiwáng

to decline

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to decline

02

to die out

03

decline and fall

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 衰亡 actually appears in real sentences.

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

用铜做镜子,可以整理好一个人的穿戴;用别人作自己的镜子,可以知道自己每一天的得失;用历史作为镜子,可以知道历史上的兴盛衰亡。yòng tóng zuò jìng zi, kě yǐ zhěng lǐ hǎo yí gè rén de chuān dài; yòng bié rén zuò zì jǐ de jìng zi, kě yǐ zhī dào zì jǐ měi yī tiān de dé shī; yòng lì shǐ zuò wéi jìng zi, kě yǐ zhī dào lì shǐ shàng de xīng shèng shuāi wáng。

With bronze as a mirror one can dress neatly; with the example of another person one can see the advantages and disadvantages of himself; from the mirror of history one can know the reason for the rise and fall of states.

精神就是形体,形体就是精神。因此,形体存在,精神才存在,形体衰亡,精神也就消灭。jīng shén jiù shì xíng tǐ, xíng tǐ jiù shì jīng shén。 yīn cǐ, xíng tǐ cún zài, jīng shén cái cún zài, xíng tǐ shuāi wáng, jīng shén yě jiù xiāo miè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 衰亡.

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

Directly before

  • 兴盛衰亡1
  • 形体衰亡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 衰亡

What does 衰亡 mean in Chinese?

衰亡 (shuāiwáng) means to decline.

How do you pronounce 衰亡?

衰亡 is pronounced shuāiwáng.

Is 衰亡 an HSK word?

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

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