I saw a light in the distance.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
远处
distant place
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
distant place
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 远处 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 远处 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I heard a dog barking in the distance.
I heard a dog barking in the distance.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 远处.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 远处.
Directly before
- 看见远处5
- 从远处4
- 听到远处4
- 了远处3
- 在远处3
Directly after
- 远处有6
- 远处的6
- 远处传来5
- 远处看3
- 远处老虎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 远处
What does 远处 mean in Chinese?
远处 (yuǎnchù) means distant place.
How do you pronounce 远处?
远处 is pronounced yuǎnchù.
Is 远处 an HSK word?
远处 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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