You must build up your courage.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鼓起勇气
to summon one's courage
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to summon one's courage
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鼓起勇气 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鼓起勇气 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Today I finally worked up the bravery to say to her "I love you!"
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鼓起勇气.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鼓起勇气.
Directly before
- 终于鼓起勇气1
- 要鼓起勇气1
- 於鼓起勇气1
Directly after
- 鼓起勇气对1
- 鼓起勇气辞职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 鼓起勇气
What does 鼓起勇气 mean in Chinese?
鼓起勇气 (gǔqǐyǒngqì) means to summon one's courage.
How do you pronounce 鼓起勇气?
鼓起勇气 is pronounced gǔqǐyǒngqì.
Is 鼓起勇气 an HSK word?
鼓起勇气 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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