Did you trim the apple trees?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
修剪
to prune
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to prune
02
to trim
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 修剪 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 修剪 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He clipped the sheep.
Mother told me to mow the lawn.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 修剪.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 修剪.
Directly before
- 我修剪2
- 精心修剪1
- 只修剪1
- 你修剪1
- 被修剪1
Directly after
- 修剪草坪1
- 修剪的1
- 修剪羊毛1
- 修剪汤姆1
- 修剪过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 修剪
What does 修剪 mean in Chinese?
修剪 (xiūjiǎn) means to prune.
How do you pronounce 修剪?
修剪 is pronounced xiūjiǎn.
Is 修剪 an HSK word?
修剪 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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