Euthanasia comes into conflict with the Hippocratic oath.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
誓言
to pledge
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pledge
02
to promise
03
oath
04
vow
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 誓言 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 誓言 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Children are to be deceived with comfits and men with oaths.
Yan Daxia realised he had been lied to and flew to Jiang Feng's side. He took Jiang Feng's son and left. Yan Daxia vowed revenge and left the boy with a spice merchant.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 誓言.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 誓言.
Directly before
- 因誓言1
- 与誓言1
- 三点誓言1
- 燕大侠誓言1
- 克拉底誓言1
Directly after
- 誓言上当1
- 誓言的1
- 誓言申明1
- 誓言报复1
- 誓言相冲突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 誓言
What does 誓言 mean in Chinese?
誓言 (shìyán) means to pledge.
How do you pronounce 誓言?
誓言 is pronounced shìyán.
Is 誓言 an HSK word?
誓言 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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