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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

高估

gāogū

to overestimate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to overestimate

02

to overrate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 高估 actually appears in real sentences.

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

你高估了他。nǐ gāo gū le tā。

You overestimate him.

我们不能高估健康的价值。wǒ men bù néng gāo gū jiàn kāng de jià zhí。

We cannot overestimate the value of health.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 高估.

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

Directly before

  • 不能高估1
  • 你高估1

Directly after

  • 高估健康1
  • 高估了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 高估

What does 高估 mean in Chinese?

高估 (gāogū) means to overestimate.

How do you pronounce 高估?

高估 is pronounced gāogū.

Is 高估 an HSK word?

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

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