I'm a night owl.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
夜猫子
owl
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
owl
02
(fig.) night owl
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 夜猫子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 夜猫子 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
You stay up until two in the morning. You're such a night owl!
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 夜猫子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 夜猫子.
Directly before
- 这个夜猫子1
- 个夜猫子1
- 属夜猫子1
Directly after
- 夜猫子的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 夜猫子
What does 夜猫子 mean in Chinese?
夜猫子 (yèmāozi) means owl.
How do you pronounce 夜猫子?
夜猫子 is pronounced yèmāozi.
Is 夜猫子 an HSK word?
夜猫子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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