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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

乖乖

guāiguāi

(of a child) well-behaved

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(of a child) well-behaved

02

obediently

03

(term of endearment for a child) darling

04

sweetie

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 乖乖 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 乖乖 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

乖乖舔鞋吧。guāi guāi tiǎn xié ba。

No published English translation for this sentence.

小兔子乖乖,把门开开,快点开开,我要进来。xiǎo tù zi guāi guāi, bǎ mén kāi kāi, kuài diǎn kāi kāi, wǒ yào jìn lái。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 乖乖.

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

Directly before

  • 小兔子乖乖1

Directly after

  • 乖乖舔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 乖乖

What does 乖乖 mean in Chinese?

乖乖 (guāiguāi) means (of a child) well-behaved.

How do you pronounce 乖乖?

乖乖 is pronounced guāiguāi. It also has the reading guāiguai.

Is 乖乖 an HSK word?

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

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