If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, follow the dog.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
嫁鸡随鸡
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husban…
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders
02
We must learn to accept the people around us
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 嫁鸡随鸡 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 嫁鸡随鸡 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 嫁鸡随鸡.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 嫁鸡随鸡.
Directly before
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
Directly after
- 嫁鸡随鸡嫁狗随狗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 嫁鸡随鸡
What does 嫁鸡随鸡 mean in Chinese?
嫁鸡随鸡 (jiàjīsuíjī) means If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husban….
How do you pronounce 嫁鸡随鸡?
嫁鸡随鸡 is pronounced jiàjīsuíjī.
Is 嫁鸡随鸡 an HSK word?
嫁鸡随鸡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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