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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

地瓜

dìguā

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

02

yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus)

03

(TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 地瓜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 地瓜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我要种地瓜叶。wǒ yào zhòng dì guā yè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

吃地瓜会放屁。chī dì guā huì fàng pì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 地瓜.

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

Directly before

  • 吃地瓜1
  • 要种地瓜1

Directly after

  • 地瓜会1
  • 地瓜叶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 地瓜

What does 地瓜 mean in Chinese?

地瓜 (dìguā) means sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas).

How do you pronounce 地瓜?

地瓜 is pronounced dìguā.

Is 地瓜 an HSK word?

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

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