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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
谚语
proverb
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
proverb
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 谚语 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 谚语 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 谚语.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 谚语.
Directly before
- 的谚语2
- 一句谚语1
- 句谚语1
Directly after
- 谚语是2
- 谚语和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 谚语
What does 谚语 mean in Chinese?
谚语 (yànyǔ) means proverb.
How do you pronounce 谚语?
谚语 is pronounced yànyǔ.
Is 谚语 an HSK word?
谚语 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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