The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
逃犯
escaped criminal; fugitive from the law
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
escaped criminal; fugitive from the law
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 逃犯 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 逃犯 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The police is searching for an escaped prisoner.
The fugitive surfaced in a small town fifty miles from here but then disappeared again.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 逃犯.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 逃犯.
Directly before
- 一名逃犯2
- 那个逃犯1
Directly after
- 逃犯在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 逃犯
What does 逃犯 mean in Chinese?
逃犯 (táofàn) means escaped criminal; fugitive from the law.
How do you pronounce 逃犯?
逃犯 is pronounced táofàn.
Is 逃犯 an HSK word?
逃犯 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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