I am chatting with you.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
闲聊
to chat
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to chat
02
casual conversation
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 闲聊 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 闲聊 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
No, I don't have time for chitchat.
Just now I was chatting with my parents.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 闲聊.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 闲聊.
Directly before
- 爸妈闲聊1
- 你闲聊1
- 时间闲聊1
- 再闲聊1
Directly after
- 闲聊了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 闲聊
What does 闲聊 mean in Chinese?
闲聊 (xiánliáo) means to chat.
How do you pronounce 闲聊?
闲聊 is pronounced xiánliáo.
Is 闲聊 an HSK word?
闲聊 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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