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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

餐巾

cānjīn

napkin

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

napkin

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 餐巾 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 餐巾 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

这里有玻璃杯、盘子和餐巾。zhè lǐ yǒu bō lí bēi、 pán zi hé cān jīn。

Here are the glasses, the plates and the serviettes.

这些餐巾颜色相同,但大小不同。zhè xiē cān jīn yán sè xiàng tóng, dàn dà xiǎo bù tóng。

The colours of the napkins are the same, but the sizes are not.

桌子优雅的用白色的桌布覆盖著,上面摆著最美的瓷盘、银制的餐具和巧妙折叠好的餐巾,奶油色蜡烛的烛光照亮整个房间。zhuō zi yōu yǎ de yòng bái sè de zhuō bù fù gài zhù, shàng miàn bǎi zhù zuì měi de cí pán、 yín zhì de cān jù hé qiǎo miào zhé dié hǎo de cān jīn, nǎi yóu sè là zhú de zhú guāng zhào liàng zhěng gè fáng jiān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 餐巾.

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

Directly before

  • 的餐巾1
  • 这些餐巾1
  • 和餐巾1

Directly after

  • 餐巾颜色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 餐巾

What does 餐巾 mean in Chinese?

餐巾 (cānjīn) means napkin.

How do you pronounce 餐巾?

餐巾 is pronounced cānjīn.

Is 餐巾 an HSK word?

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

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