Vampires drink blood.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吸血鬼
leech
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
leech
02
bloodsucking vermin
03
vampire (translated European notion)
04
fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吸血鬼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吸血鬼 appears in 17 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吸血鬼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吸血鬼.
Directly before
- 和吸血鬼4
- 是吸血鬼2
- 的吸血鬼2
- 了吸血鬼2
- 造访吸血鬼1
Directly after
- 吸血鬼之王1
- 吸血鬼吗1
- 吸血鬼有1
- 吸血鬼电影1
- 吸血鬼喝血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 吸血鬼
What does 吸血鬼 mean in Chinese?
吸血鬼 (xīxuèguǐ) means leech.
How do you pronounce 吸血鬼?
吸血鬼 is pronounced xīxuèguǐ.
Is 吸血鬼 an HSK word?
吸血鬼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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