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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

鬼脸

guǐliǎn

wry face

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

wry face

02

to grimace

03

to pull a face

04

comic face

05

face mask

06

devil mask

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 鬼脸 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鬼脸 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我做了鬼脸。wǒ zuò le guǐ liǎn。

I made a face.

小丑做了个鬼脸。xiǎo chǒu zuò le gè guǐ liǎn。

The clown made a funny face.

她对那个女人做了鬼脸。tā duì nà ge nǚ rén zuò le guǐ liǎn。

She made faces at that woman.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 鬼脸.

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

Directly before

  • 了鬼脸2
  • 个鬼脸1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 鬼脸

What does 鬼脸 mean in Chinese?

鬼脸 (guǐliǎn) means wry face.

How do you pronounce 鬼脸?

鬼脸 is pronounced guǐliǎn.

Is 鬼脸 an HSK word?

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

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