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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
预知
to anticipate
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to anticipate
02
to foresee
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 预知 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 预知 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He was so healthy up to the minute of his sudden death. You really never know what might happen next.
The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 预知.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 预知.
Directly before
- 无法预知3
- 不能预知2
Directly after
- 预知未来3
- 预知的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 预知
What does 预知 mean in Chinese?
预知 (yùzhī) means to anticipate.
How do you pronounce 预知?
预知 is pronounced yùzhī.
Is 预知 an HSK word?
预知 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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