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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

要塞

yàosài

stronghold

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

stronghold

02

fort

03

fortification

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 要塞 actually appears in real sentences.

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

要塞意外地被攻击了。yào sài yì wài dì bèi gōng jī le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我国处於四通八达的交通要塞。wǒ guó chù yú sì tōng bā dá de jiāo tōng yào sài。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 要塞.

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

Directly before

  • 交通要塞1

Directly after

  • 要塞意外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 要塞

What does 要塞 mean in Chinese?

要塞 (yàosài) means stronghold.

How do you pronounce 要塞?

要塞 is pronounced yàosài.

Is 要塞 an HSK word?

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

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