CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

修女

xiūnǚ

nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 修女 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 修女 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

特蕾莎修女被授予诺贝尔奖。tè lěi shā xiū nǚ bèi shòu yǔ nuò bèi ěr jiǎng。

Mother Teresa was given the Nobel prize.

修女从黑色裙子的褶皱间掏出剪刀，熟练地将彩色纸剪成长而窄的纸条，让我们可以把这些纸条编成纸地毯。xiū nǚ cóng hēi sè qún zi de zhě zhòu jiān tāo chū jiǎn dāo， shú liàn dì jiāng cǎi sè zhǐ jiǎn chéng zhǎng ér zhǎi de zhǐ tiáo， ràng wǒ men kě yǐ bǎ zhè xiē zhǐ tiáo biān chéng zhǐ dì tǎn。

From between the pleats of her black skirt, the nun brought out scissors and deftly cut coloured paper into long, narrow strips, which we could then braid into a paper rug.

那个修女要要去浇花和花菜。nà ge xiū nǚ yào yào qù jiāo huā hé huā cài。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 修女.

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

Directly before

那个修女2
特蕾莎修女1

Directly after

修女要2
修女被1
修女从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 修女

What does 修女 mean in Chinese?

修女 (xiūnǚ) means nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches).

How do you pronounce 修女?

修女 is pronounced xiūnǚ.

Is 修女 an HSK word?

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

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