She's an evil witch.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
女巫
witch; sorceress
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
witch; sorceress
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 女巫 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 女巫 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Mary dressed up as a witch.
The enchantress clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 女巫.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 女巫.
Directly before
- 的女巫2
- 沙女巫2
- 一个女巫1
- 比沙女巫1
- 这位女巫1
Directly after
- 女巫抓住1
- 女巫中1
- 女巫更1
- 女巫住1
- 女巫完全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 女巫
What does 女巫 mean in Chinese?
女巫 (nǚwū) means witch; sorceress.
How do you pronounce 女巫?
女巫 is pronounced nǚwū.
Is 女巫 an HSK word?
女巫 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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