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仙人掌

xiānrénzhǎng

cactus

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cactus

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 仙人掌 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 仙人掌 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

生活就像是舔仙人掌上的蜂蜜。shēng huó jiù xiàng shì tiǎn xiān rén zhǎng shàng de fēng mì。

Life is like licking honey off a cactus.

你的嘴唇软绵绵的，就像仙人掌的表皮一样。nǐ de zuǐ chún ruǎn mián mián de， jiù xiàng xiān rén zhǎng de biǎo pí yī yàng。

Your lips are soft like the surface of a cactus.

这两个民族都以鹿、小型猎物、啮齿动物甚至昆虫为生，但他们的主要食物来源可能是仙人掌、牧豆和山核桃等植物。zhè liǎng gè mín zú dōu yǐ lù、 xiǎo xíng liè wù、 niè chǐ dòng wù shèn zhì kūn chóng wéi shēng， dàn tā men de zhǔ yào shí wù lái yuán kě néng shì xiān rén zhǎng、 mù dòu hé shān hé táo děng zhí wù。

Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 仙人掌.

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

Directly before

  • 像仙人掌1
  • 一种仙人掌1
  • 舔仙人掌1
  • 是仙人掌1

Directly after

  • 仙人掌的1
  • 仙人掌叫做1
  • 仙人掌上1
  • 仙人掌既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 仙人掌

What does 仙人掌 mean in Chinese?

仙人掌 (xiānrénzhǎng) means cactus.

How do you pronounce 仙人掌?

仙人掌 is pronounced xiānrénzhǎng.

Is 仙人掌 an HSK word?

仙人掌 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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