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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

下巴

xiàba

chin

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

chin

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 下巴 actually appears in real sentences.

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

她打了我的下巴。tā dǎ le wǒ de xià bā。

She slapped me on the chin.

他用手撑着下巴,听着。tā yòng shǒu chēng zhe xià bā, tīng zhe。

He was listening with his chin resting on his hand.

他磕碎了下巴,掉了几颗牙。tā kē suì le xià bā, diào le jǐ kē yá。

He got a broken jaw and lost some teeth.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 下巴.

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

Directly before

  • 了下巴1
  • 着下巴1
  • 的下巴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 下巴

What does 下巴 mean in Chinese?

下巴 (xiàba) means chin.

How do you pronounce 下巴?

下巴 is pronounced xiàba.

Is 下巴 an HSK word?

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

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