Eat your soup while it is hot.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
趁热
while it's still hot
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
while it's still hot
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 趁热 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 趁热 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Let's eat while the food is warm.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 趁热.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 趁热.
Directly before
- 我们趁热1
Directly after
- 趁热喝1
- 趁热吃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 趁热
What does 趁热 mean in Chinese?
趁热 (chènrè) means while it's still hot.
How do you pronounce 趁热?
趁热 is pronounced chènrè.
Is 趁热 an HSK word?
趁热 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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