My dad gives me an allowance of $10 a week.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
零用钱
pocket money
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
pocket money
02
allowance
03
spending money
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 零用钱 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 零用钱 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
My dad gives me a weekly allowance that I use to buy comics and ice cream.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 零用钱.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 零用钱.
Directly before
- 的零用钱2
- 我零用钱1
- 块零用钱1
Directly after
- 零用钱不该1
- 零用钱不1
- 零用钱不要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 零用钱
What does 零用钱 mean in Chinese?
零用钱 (língyòngqián) means pocket money.
How do you pronounce 零用钱?
零用钱 is pronounced língyòngqián.
Is 零用钱 an HSK word?
零用钱 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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