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变色龙

biànsèlóng

(lit. and fig.) chameleon

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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(lit. and fig.) chameleon

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 变色龙 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我有时就像一只在一袋聪明豆中的变色龙一样困惑。wǒ yǒu shí jiù xiàng yī zhī zài yī dài cōng míng dòu zhōng de biàn sè lóng yī yàng kùn huò。

No published English translation for this sentence.

变色龙是爬行类中的高手,它能改变体色来伪装环境。biàn sè lóng shì pá xíng lèi zhōng de gāo shǒu, tā néng gǎi biàn tǐ sè lái wěi zhuāng huán jìng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 变色龙.

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

Directly before

  • 的变色龙1

Directly after

  • 变色龙是1
  • 变色龙一样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 变色龙

What does 变色龙 mean in Chinese?

变色龙 (biànsèlóng) means (lit. and fig.) chameleon.

How do you pronounce 变色龙?

变色龙 is pronounced biànsèlóng.

Is 变色龙 an HSK word?

变色龙 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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