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宇航员

yǔhángyuán

astronaut

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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astronaut

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 宇航员 actually appears in real sentences.

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

宇航服保护宇航员们不会因和微小宇宙尘埃碰撞而受伤。yǔ háng fú bǎo hù yǔ háng yuán men bú huì yīn hé wēi xiǎo yǔ zhòu chén āi pèng zhuàng ér shòu shāng。

Spacesuits protect astronauts from being injured from impacts of small bits of space dust.

汤姆有个朋友,他爸爸是宇航员。tāng mǔ yǒu gè péng yǒu, tā bà bà shì yǔ háng yuán。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 宇航员.

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

Directly before

  • 是宇航员1
  • 保护宇航员1

Directly after

  • 宇航员们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 宇航员

What does 宇航员 mean in Chinese?

宇航员 (yǔhángyuán) means astronaut.

How do you pronounce 宇航员?

宇航员 is pronounced yǔhángyuán.

Is 宇航员 an HSK word?

宇航员 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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