The thunder scared the children.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
雷声
thunder
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
thunder
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 雷声 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 雷声 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I heard it thunder in the distance.
It is because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 雷声.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 雷声.
Directly before
- 听见雷声1
- 的雷声1
Directly after
- 雷声吓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 雷声
What does 雷声 mean in Chinese?
雷声 (léishēng) means thunder.
How do you pronounce 雷声?
雷声 is pronounced léishēng.
Is 雷声 an HSK word?
雷声 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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