How are you keeping off this intense heat?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
酷暑
intense heat
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
intense heat
02
extremely hot weather
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 酷暑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 酷暑 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Hot weather will continue, so please watch out for food poisoning.
Hot weather will continue, so please watch out for food poisoning.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 酷暑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 酷暑.
Directly before
- 因为酷暑3
- 在酷暑2
- 这酷暑1
- 了酷暑1
- 这次酷暑1
Directly after
- 酷暑天气4
- 酷暑一直2
- 酷暑警报2
- 酷暑的1
- 酷暑持续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 酷暑
What does 酷暑 mean in Chinese?
酷暑 (kùshǔ) means intense heat.
How do you pronounce 酷暑?
酷暑 is pronounced kùshǔ.
Is 酷暑 an HSK word?
酷暑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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