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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

讯问

xùnwèn

to interrogate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to interrogate

02

to ask about

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 讯问 actually appears in real sentences.

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

这样讯问只是警察例行公事。zhè yàng xùn wèn zhǐ shì jǐng chá lì xíng gōng shì。

Such questioning is routine police business.

他在讯问时全程保持沉默。tā zài xùn wèn shí quán chéng bǎo chí chén mò。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 讯问.

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

Directly before

  • 在讯问1
  • 这样讯问1

Directly after

  • 讯问时1
  • 讯问只是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 讯问

What does 讯问 mean in Chinese?

讯问 (xùnwèn) means to interrogate.

How do you pronounce 讯问?

讯问 is pronounced xùnwèn.

Is 讯问 an HSK word?

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

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