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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

呜呜

wūwū

(interj) boo hoo

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(interj) boo hoo

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 呜呜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 呜呜 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

每个人都爱呜呜塞拉!měi gè rén dōu ài wū wū sāi lā!

Everybody loves the vuvuzelas!

小红呜呜哭个不停。xiǎo hóng wū wū kū gè bù tíng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

小红呜呜地哭个不停。xiǎo hóng wū wū dì kū gè bù tíng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 呜呜.

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

Directly before

  • 小红呜呜2
  • 爱呜呜1

Directly after

  • 呜呜塞拉1
  • 呜呜地哭个1
  • 呜呜哭个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 呜呜

What does 呜呜 mean in Chinese?

呜呜 (wūwū) means (interj) boo hoo.

How do you pronounce 呜呜?

呜呜 is pronounced wūwū.

Is 呜呜 an HSK word?

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

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