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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

头骨

tóugǔ

skull

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

skull

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 头骨 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 头骨 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

汤姆在胸上有个头骨文身。tāng mǔ zài xiōng shàng yǒu gè tóu gǔ wén shēn。

Tom has a tattoo of a skull on his chest.

仔细检查后发现,该头骨被重击碎裂。zǐ xì jiǎn chá hòu fā xiàn, gāi tóu gǔ bèi zhòng jī suì liè。

After careful examination, it can be seen that the skull was smashed to pieces.

进一步的检查发现头骨受到剧烈的撞击而碎裂。jìn yí bù de jiǎn chá fā xiàn tóu gǔ shòu dào jù liè de zhuàng jī ér suì liè。

Another step forward revealed that the skull had received violent impact and disintegrated.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 头骨.

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

Directly before

  • 该头骨1
  • 通过头骨1
  • 发现头骨1
  • 有个头骨1

Directly after

  • 头骨被1
  • 头骨内1
  • 头骨受到1
  • 头骨文身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 头骨

What does 头骨 mean in Chinese?

头骨 (tóugǔ) means skull.

How do you pronounce 头骨?

头骨 is pronounced tóugǔ.

Is 头骨 an HSK word?

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

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