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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

闪耀

shǎnyào

to glint

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to glint

02

to glitter

03

to sparkle

04

to radiate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 闪耀 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 闪耀 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

在又黑又脏的大厦里,它们就像星星一样地闪耀著。zài yòu hēi yòu zàng de dà shà lǐ, tā men jiù xiàng xīng xīng yī yàng dì shǎn yào zhù。

They shone like stars in the dark, dirty building.

越过松林,远处有一座小花园。那里青草长得又长又茂盛,铁杉花像洁白的星星一样闪耀,夜莺整夜唱歌。它整夜歌唱,冰冷的月光俯瞰著它,紫杉树张开巨大的枝干,庇护著沉睡的人们。yuè guò sōng lín, yuǎn chù yǒu yī zuò xiǎo huā yuán。 nà lǐ qīng cǎo zhǎng dé yòu zhǎng yòu mào shèng, tiě shān huā xiàng jié bái de xīng xīng yī yàng shǎn yào, yè yīng zhěng yè chàng gē。 tā zhěng yè gē chàng, bīng lěng de yuè guāng fǔ kàn zhù tā, zǐ shān shù zhāng kāi jù dà de zhī gàn, bì hù zhù chén shuì de rén men。

Far away beyond the pine-woods, there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 闪耀.

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

Directly before

  • 地闪耀1
  • 一样闪耀1

Directly after

  • 闪耀著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 闪耀

What does 闪耀 mean in Chinese?

闪耀 (shǎnyào) means to glint.

How do you pronounce 闪耀?

闪耀 is pronounced shǎnyào.

Is 闪耀 an HSK word?

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

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