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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

嘎嘎

gāgā

(onom.) quack

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(onom.) quack

02

honk

03

(northern dialect) very

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 嘎嘎 actually appears in real sentences.

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

嘎嘎!gā gā!

Quack!

上次去看雷帝嘎嘎的演唱会, 尽管她唱完歌了,很多听歌的人却不满足。shàng cì qù kàn léi dì gā gā de yǎn chàng huì, jǐn guǎn tā chàng wán gē le, hěn duō tīng gē de rén què bù mǎn zú。

Last time I went to a Lady Gaga concert, although she finished all her songs, many members of the audience were not satisfied.

牛儿「哞哞」,小鸡「咯咯 day」,小猪「哼哼」,小鸭「嘎嘎」,小猫「喵喵」。niú ér 「mōu mōu」, xiǎo jī 「gē gē day」, xiǎo zhū 「hēng hēng」, xiǎo yā 「gā gā」, xiǎo māo 「miāo miāo」。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 嘎嘎.

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

Directly before

  • 看雷帝嘎嘎1

Directly after

  • 嘎嘎的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 嘎嘎

What does 嘎嘎 mean in Chinese?

嘎嘎 (gāgā) means (onom.) quack.

How do you pronounce 嘎嘎?

嘎嘎 is pronounced gāgā.

Is 嘎嘎 an HSK word?

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

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