A stranger came into the building.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
陌生人
stranger
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
stranger
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 陌生人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 陌生人 appears in 32 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The dog barked at the stranger.
I am very ill at ease with strangers.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 陌生人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 陌生人.
Directly before
- 一个陌生人7
- 的陌生人3
- 对陌生人3
- 和陌生人2
- 有个陌生人2
Directly after
- 陌生人来2
- 陌生人进2
- 陌生人的2
- 陌生人看2
- 陌生人叫2
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 陌生人
What does 陌生人 mean in Chinese?
陌生人 (mòshēngrén) means stranger.
How do you pronounce 陌生人?
陌生人 is pronounced mòshēngrén.
Is 陌生人 an HSK word?
陌生人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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