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向日葵

xiàngrìkuí

sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 向日葵 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 向日葵 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

那是一朵向日葵。nà shì yī duǒ xiàng rì kuí。

It's a sunflower.

向日葵总是面向太阳。xiàng rì kuí zǒng shì miàn xiàng tài yáng。

Sunflowers always point towards the sun.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 向日葵.

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

Directly before

  • 一朵向日葵1

Directly after

  • 向日葵总是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 向日葵

What does 向日葵 mean in Chinese?

向日葵 (xiàngrìkuí) means sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

How do you pronounce 向日葵?

向日葵 is pronounced xiàngrìkuí.

Is 向日葵 an HSK word?

向日葵 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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