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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

责骂

zémà

to scold

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to scold

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 责骂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 责骂 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

给母亲责骂的时候不要回嘴。gěi mǔ qīn zé mà de shí hòu bú yào huí zuǐ。

You mustn't answer your mother back when she scolds you.

小明忍耐不了妈妈的责骂,便嚎啕大哭。xiǎo míng rěn nài bù liǎo mā mā de zé mà, biàn háo táo dà kū。

Xiaoming could not handle his mother's scolding anymore, bursting into tears.

我看见他被他的父亲责骂。wǒ kàn jiàn tā bèi tā de fù qīn zé mà。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 责骂.

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

Directly before

  • 先生责骂1
  • 母亲责骂1
  • 父亲责骂1
  • 的责骂1
  • 父母责骂1

Directly after

  • 责骂我1
  • 责骂的1
  • 责骂了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 责骂

What does 责骂 mean in Chinese?

责骂 (zémà) means to scold.

How do you pronounce 责骂?

责骂 is pronounced zémà.

Is 责骂 an HSK word?

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

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