She took care of the poor little bird.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小鸟
small bird
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
small bird
02
young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick)
03
(fig.) penis (kiddie term)
04
(golf) birdie
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小鸟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小鸟 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Oh! two birdlings, died of the cold.
Old birds sing, young birds twitter.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小鸟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小鸟.
Directly before
- 的小鸟3
- 连小鸟1
- 一只小鸟1
- 把小鸟1
- 让小鸟1
Directly after
- 小鸟在2
- 小鸟也1
- 小鸟欢快1
- 小鸟从1
- 小鸟吱吱叫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 小鸟
What does 小鸟 mean in Chinese?
小鸟 (xiǎoniǎo) means small bird.
How do you pronounce 小鸟?
小鸟 is pronounced xiǎoniǎo.
Is 小鸟 an HSK word?
小鸟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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