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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

起居室

qǐjūshì

living room

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

living room

02

sitting room

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 起居室 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起居室 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆在起居室里。tāng mǔ zài qǐ jū shì lǐ。

Tom is in the living room.

孩子们不是在起居室, 而是在花园里玩。hái zi men bú shì zài qǐ jū shì, ér shì zài huā yuán lǐ wán。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 起居室.

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

Directly before

  • 在起居室2

Directly after

  • 起居室里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 起居室

What does 起居室 mean in Chinese?

起居室 (qǐjūshì) means living room.

How do you pronounce 起居室?

起居室 is pronounced qǐjūshì.

Is 起居室 an HSK word?

起居室 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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