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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
要死
extremely
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
extremely
02
awfully
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 要死 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 要死 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm terribly busy.
I'm so happy I could die.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 要死.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 要死.
Directly before
- 注定要死3
- 得要死3
- 必定要死1
- 是要死1
- 明天要死1
Directly after
- 要死的4
- 要死了4
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 要死
What does 要死 mean in Chinese?
要死 (yàosǐ) means extremely.
How do you pronounce 要死?
要死 is pronounced yàosǐ.
Is 要死 an HSK word?
要死 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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