This water has an ugly smell.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
难闻
unpleasant smell
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unpleasant smell
02
stink
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 难闻 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 难闻 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami's towels stank.
Nail polish remover stinks a lot.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 难闻.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 难闻.
Directly before
- 很难闻3
- 那种难闻1
- 强烈难闻1
- 毛巾难闻1
Directly after
- 难闻的2
- 难闻死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 难闻
What does 难闻 mean in Chinese?
难闻 (nánwén) means unpleasant smell.
How do you pronounce 难闻?
难闻 is pronounced nánwén.
Is 难闻 an HSK word?
难闻 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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