CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

面颊

miànjiá

cheek

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

cheek

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 面颊 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 面颊 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

泪水沿着我的面颊流了下来。lèi shuǐ yán zhe wǒ de miàn jiá liú le xià lái。

Tears rolled down my cheeks.

我有一天醒来发现上帝将毛发植在了我的面颊上，我给它剃了。我次日醒来又发现上帝在我的脸上种了毛发，我又给它剃了。当我第三天发现上帝再一次把毛发植在我脸上时，我绝定接受上帝的旨意。我就这样有了胡子。wǒ yǒu yī tiān xǐng lái fā xiàn shàng dì jiāng máo fà zhí zài le wǒ de miàn jiá shàng， wǒ gěi tā tì le。 wǒ cì rì xǐng lái yòu fā xiàn shàng dì zài wǒ de liǎn shàng zhǒng le máo fà， wǒ yòu gěi tā tì le。 dāng wǒ dì sān tiān fā xiàn shàng dì zài yí cì bǎ máo fà zhí zài wǒ liǎn shàng shí， wǒ jué dìng jiē shòu shàng dì de zhǐ yì。 wǒ jiù zhè yàng yǒu le hú zi。

One day, I woke up to find that God had put hair on my face. I shaved it off. The next day, I found that God had put it back on my face, so I shaved it off again. On the third day, when I found that God had put hair back on my face again, I decided to let God have his way. That's why I have a beard.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 面颊.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 面颊.

Directly before

的面颊2

Directly after

面颊流1
面颊上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 面颊

What does 面颊 mean in Chinese?

面颊 (miànjiá) means cheek.

How do you pronounce 面颊?

面颊 is pronounced miànjiá.

Is 面颊 an HSK word?

面颊 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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