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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

过客

guòkè

passing traveler

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

passing traveler

02

transient guest

03

sojourner

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 过客 actually appears in real sentences.

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

不过,我从来没有在一个小气的英国家庭做过客。bù guò, wǒ cóng lái méi yǒu zài yí gè xiǎo qì de yīng guó jiā tíng zuò guò kè。

However, I've never been a guest in an English household that wasn't generous.

我们皆是时间的过客,何必执著?wǒ men jiē shì shí jiān de guò kè, hé bì zhí zhuó?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 过客.

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

Directly before

  • 做过客1
  • 的过客1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 过客

What does 过客 mean in Chinese?

过客 (guòkè) means passing traveler.

How do you pronounce 过客?

过客 is pronounced guòkè.

Is 过客 an HSK word?

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

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