I am a vegetarian.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吃素
to be a vegetarian
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be a vegetarian
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吃素 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吃素 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Even though my friend was a vegetarian, I didn't tell him that the soup had some meat in it.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吃素.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吃素.
Directly before
- 是吃素2
Directly after
- 吃素的2
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 吃素
What does 吃素 mean in Chinese?
吃素 (chīsù) means to be a vegetarian.
How do you pronounce 吃素?
吃素 is pronounced chīsù.
Is 吃素 an HSK word?
吃素 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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