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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

口哨

kǒushào

whistle

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

whistle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 口哨 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 口哨 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

裁判吹响了口哨,判定他手球。cái pàn chuī xiǎng le kǒu shào, pàn dìng tā shǒu qiú。

The referee blew the whistle and called a hand ball on him.

他一边驾著车,一边快乐地吹著口哨。tā yī biān jià zhù chē, yī biān kuài lè dì chuī zhù kǒu shào。

He drove his car, whistling merrily.

吉姆一边驾著车,一边愉快地吹著口哨。jí mǔ yī biān jià zhù chē, yī biān yú kuài dì chuī zhù kǒu shào。

Jim drove his car, whistling merrily.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 口哨.

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

Directly before

  • 地吹著口哨2
  • 了口哨1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 口哨

What does 口哨 mean in Chinese?

口哨 (kǒushào) means whistle.

How do you pronounce 口哨?

口哨 is pronounced kǒushào.

Is 口哨 an HSK word?

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

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