Zombies eat brains.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
僵尸
gyonshi
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
gyonshi
02
jiang shi
03
Chinese vampire
04
zombie
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 僵尸 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 僵尸 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
What would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse?
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 僵尸.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 僵尸.
Directly before
- 在僵尸1
Directly after
- 僵尸和4
- 僵尸启示录1
- 僵尸吃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 僵尸
What does 僵尸 mean in Chinese?
僵尸 (jiāngshī) means gyonshi.
How do you pronounce 僵尸?
僵尸 is pronounced jiāngshī.
Is 僵尸 an HSK word?
僵尸 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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