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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

冬眠

dōngmián

to hibernate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to hibernate

02

hibernation

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 冬眠 actually appears in real sentences.

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

寒带森林生态系中,动物常以冬眠方式过冬。hán dài sēn lín shēng tài xì zhōng, dòng wù cháng yǐ dōng mián fāng shì guò dōng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

熊是杂食性哺乳类,冬天会冬眠以度过寒冷季节。xióng shì zá shí xìng bǔ rǔ lèi, dōng tiān huì dōng mián yǐ dù guò hán lěng jì jié。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 冬眠.

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

Directly before

  • 会冬眠1
  • 以冬眠1

Directly after

  • 冬眠以1
  • 冬眠方式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 冬眠

What does 冬眠 mean in Chinese?

冬眠 (dōngmián) means to hibernate.

How do you pronounce 冬眠?

冬眠 is pronounced dōngmián.

Is 冬眠 an HSK word?

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

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