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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

走动

zǒudòng

to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk

02

to be mobile (e.g. after an illness)

03

to visit one another; to socialize

04

to pay a visit (go to the toilet)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 走动 actually appears in real sentences.

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

她病了很久,现在还很虚弱,无法随意走动。tā bìng le hěn jiǔ, xiàn zài hái hěn xū ruò, wú fǎ suí yì zǒu dòng。

She has been ill for a long time and she is still too weak to get about.

当你在房子周围走动时,你能看到什麽样的风景和建筑物?dāng nǐ zài fáng zi zhōu wéi zǒu dòng shí, nǐ néng kàn dào shén mó yàng de fēng jǐng hé jiàn zhù wù?

When you walk around your house, what kind of scenery and buildings can you see?

他穿著袜套在家里走动。tā chuān zhù wà tào zài jiā lǐ zǒu dòng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 走动.

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

Directly before

  • 随意走动1
  • 家里走动1
  • 周围走动1
  • 里走动1
  • 的走动1

Directly after

  • 走动时1
  • 走动的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 走动

What does 走动 mean in Chinese?

走动 (zǒudòng) means to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk.

How do you pronounce 走动?

走动 is pronounced zǒudòng.

Is 走动 an HSK word?

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

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