The recent advances in medicine are remarkable.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
颇为
rather
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
rather
02
quite
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 颇为 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 颇为 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The surface of the object is fairly rough.
Tom seemed quite busy, didn't he?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 颇为.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 颇为.
Directly before
- 表面颇为1
- 都颇为1
- 最新进展颇为1
- 好像颇为1
Directly after
- 颇为粗糙1
- 颇为荒唐1
- 颇为显著1
- 颇为忙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 颇为
What does 颇为 mean in Chinese?
颇为 (pōwéi) means rather.
How do you pronounce 颇为?
颇为 is pronounced pōwéi.
Is 颇为 an HSK word?
颇为 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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