CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

后脑

hòunǎo

hindbrain

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

hindbrain

back of the head

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 后脑 actually appears in real sentences.

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

“妈妈，我出去了。”“去哪儿？”“大学？”“现在不是春假吗？你去干什麽？”“俱乐部？”“看起来那麽聪明？”“没关系吧？我去哪里应该都无所谓。”“好吧，但你后脑杓乱得像鸟窝一样。”“认真的？”“ mā mā， wǒ chū qù le。”“ qù nǎ ér？”“ dà xué？”“ xiàn zài bú shì chūn jià ma？ nǐ qù gàn shén mó？”“ jù lè bù？”“ kàn qǐ lái nà mó cōng míng？”“ méi guān xì ba？ wǒ qù nǎ lǐ yīng gāi dōu wú suǒ wèi。”“ hǎo ba， dàn nǐ hòu nǎo biāo luàn dé xiàng niǎo wō yī yàng。”“ rèn zhēn de？”

"Mum, I'm going out." "Where to?" "University?" "Isn't it spring break now? What are you going there for?" "A club?" "Looking that smart?" "It's all right isn't it? It shouldn't matter where I go." "Fine, but you've got bed hair at the back." "Seriously?"

朝南看的时间久的话，后脑是会长出苔藓的。cháo nán kàn de shí jiān jiǔ de huà， hòu nǎo shì huì zhǎng chū tái xiǎn de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 后脑.

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

Directly before

你后脑1

Directly after

后脑是1
后脑杓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 后脑

What does 后脑 mean in Chinese?

后脑 (hòunǎo) means hindbrain.

How do you pronounce 后脑?

后脑 is pronounced hòunǎo.

Is 后脑 an HSK word?

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

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