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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

小鸡

xiǎojī

chick

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

chick

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 小鸡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小鸡 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

母鸡孵蛋,孵出小鸡。mǔ jī fū dàn, fū chū xiǎo jī。

A chicken hatches an egg and a chick emerges.

刚出生的小鸡还没有睁开眼睛。gāng chū shēng de xiǎo jī hái méi yǒu zhēng kāi yǎn jīng。

The newborn chicks still have not opened their eyes.

我家的猫不怕人,不怕虫子,就怕小鸡。wǒ jiā de māo bù pà rén, bù pà chóng zi, jiù pà xiǎo jī。

My family's cat is not afraid of people or insects, but is afraid of chicks.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 小鸡.

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

Directly before

  • 的小鸡2
  • 被小鸡1
  • 见到小鸡1
  • 怕小鸡1
  • 只小鸡1

Directly after

  • 小鸡还1
  • 小鸡啄1
  • 小鸡就1
  • 小鸡最后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 小鸡

What does 小鸡 mean in Chinese?

小鸡 (xiǎojī) means chick.

How do you pronounce 小鸡?

小鸡 is pronounced xiǎojī.

Is 小鸡 an HSK word?

小鸡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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