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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

口渴

kǒukě

thirsty

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

thirsty

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 口渴 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 口渴 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你看起来很口渴。nǐ kàn qǐ lái hěn kǒu kě。

You look thirsty.

有些食物令人口渴。yǒu xiē shí wù lìng rén kǒu kě。

Some foods make you thirsty.

你的狗看起来口渴了。nǐ de gǒu kàn qǐ lái kǒu kě le。

It looks like your dog is thirsty.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 口渴.

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

Directly before

  • 令人口渴1
  • 看起来口渴1
  • 很口渴1
  • 玛丽口渴1
  • 觉得口渴1

Directly after

  • 口渴了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 口渴

What does 口渴 mean in Chinese?

口渴 (kǒukě) means thirsty.

How do you pronounce 口渴?

口渴 is pronounced kǒukě.

Is 口渴 an HSK word?

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

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