Tom lives in a slum.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
贫民窟
slum housing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
slum housing
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 贫民窟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 贫民窟 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
There are many slums in Mexico.
There are many slums in Mexico.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 贫民窟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 贫民窟.
Directly before
- 很多贫民窟2
- 在贫民窟1
- 的贫民窟1
- 那些贫民窟1
Directly after
- 贫民窟里1
- 贫民窟的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 贫民窟
What does 贫民窟 mean in Chinese?
贫民窟 (pínmínkū) means slum housing.
How do you pronounce 贫民窟?
贫民窟 is pronounced pínmínkū.
Is 贫民窟 an HSK word?
贫民窟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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