He died without having made a will.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
遗言
words of the deceased
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
words of the deceased
02
last words of the dying
03
wisdom of past sages
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 遗言 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 遗言 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The court adjudged that the will was valid.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 遗言.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 遗言.
Directly before
- 任何遗言1
- 那个遗言1
- 的遗言1
Directly after
- 遗言就1
- 遗言是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 遗言
What does 遗言 mean in Chinese?
遗言 (yíyán) means words of the deceased.
How do you pronounce 遗言?
遗言 is pronounced yíyán.
Is 遗言 an HSK word?
遗言 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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