The razor made a buzzing sound.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
嗡嗡
(onom.) buzz; drone; hum
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(onom.) buzz; drone; hum
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 嗡嗡 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 嗡嗡 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The buzzing of the bees makes me a little nervous.
Did you know that if you plug a pickle into an electrical outlet, it glows and makes buzzing noises?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 嗡嗡.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 嗡嗡.
Directly before
- 一群嗡嗡1
- 发出嗡嗡1
- 夜里嗡嗡1
- 了嗡嗡1
- 的嗡嗡1
Directly after
- 嗡嗡的2
- 嗡嗡狂叫1
- 嗡嗡飞1
- 嗡嗡让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 嗡嗡
What does 嗡嗡 mean in Chinese?
嗡嗡 (wēngwēng) means (onom.) buzz; drone; hum.
How do you pronounce 嗡嗡?
嗡嗡 is pronounced wēngwēng.
Is 嗡嗡 an HSK word?
嗡嗡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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