We tried to persuade him.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
试着
(coll.) to try to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(coll.) to try to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 试着 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 试着 appears in 30 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I am trying to learn English.
Bob often tries to give up smoking.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 试着.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 试着.
Directly before
- 汤姆试着4
- 我们试着2
- 尽量试着1
- 可以试着1
- 竟然试着1
Directly after
- 试着用2
- 试着劝2
- 试着去2
- 试着慷慨1
- 试着多一点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 试着
What does 试着 mean in Chinese?
试着 (shìzhe) means (coll.) to try to.
How do you pronounce 试着?
试着 is pronounced shìzhe.
Is 试着 an HSK word?
试着 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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