Don't mix up comets and asteroids.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小行星
asteroid
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
asteroid
02
minor planet
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小行星 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小行星 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The asteroid broke up into small pieces as it entered Earth's atmosphere.
The space probe Lucy is expected to arrive in 2025 to the proximity of the asteroid Donaldjohanson.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小行星.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小行星.
Directly before
- 和小行星1
- 抵达小行星1
Directly after
- 小行星搞混1
- 小行星分裂1
- 小行星唐纳德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 小行星
What does 小行星 mean in Chinese?
小行星 (xiǎoxíngxīng) means asteroid.
How do you pronounce 小行星?
小行星 is pronounced xiǎoxíngxīng.
Is 小行星 an HSK word?
小行星 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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