Look at that tall building.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
高楼
high building
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
high building
02
multistory building
03
skyscraper
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 高楼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 高楼 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Look at the large building over there.
That is a high building, is it not?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 高楼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 高楼.
Directly before
- 这幢高楼1
- 幢高楼1
- 看见高楼1
- 那幢高楼1
- 还会造高楼1
Directly after
- 高楼是1
- 高楼相比1
- 高楼林立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 高楼
What does 高楼 mean in Chinese?
高楼 (gāolóu) means high building.
How do you pronounce 高楼?
高楼 is pronounced gāolóu.
Is 高楼 an HSK word?
高楼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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