CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

山羊

shānyáng

goat

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

goat

(gymnastics) small-sized vaulting horse

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 山羊 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 山羊 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

一个牧羊人把他一身白雪的山羊赶进被遗弃的山洞躲避暴风雪。yí gè mù yáng rén bǎ tā yī shēn bái xuě de shān yáng gǎn jìn bèi yí qì de shān dòng duǒ bì bào fēng xuě。

A goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a deserted cave for shelter.

奶酪是由母牛、山羊、绵羊或其它哺乳动物的奶加工制成的固体食物。nǎi lào shì yóu mǔ niú、 shān yáng、 mián yáng huò qí tā bǔ rǔ dòng wù de nǎi jiā gōng zhì chéng de gù tǐ shí wù。

Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals.

评论员对巫巫兹拉的声音作出了各种各样的描述：除了「烦人」、「像魔鬼一般」之外，还把它比作「一群嘈吵的大象」、「一群嗡嗡狂叫的蝗虫」、「一只准备给屠宰的山羊」、「一个装满发狂的蜜蜂的巨大蜂巢」、「一只吃了摇头丸的鸭子」等等。píng lùn yuán duì wū wū zī lā de shēng yīn zuò chū le gè zhǒng gè yàng de miáo shù： chú le 「fán rén」、「xiàng mó guǐ yì bān」 zhī wài， hái bǎ tā bǐ zuò 「yī qún cáo chǎo de dà xiàng」、「yī qún wēng wēng kuáng jiào de huáng chóng」、「yī zhī zhǔn bèi gěi tú zǎi de shān yáng」、「yí gè zhuāng mǎn fā kuáng de mì fēng de jù dà fēng cháo」、「yī zhī chī le yáo tóu wán de yā zi」 děng děng。

Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 山羊.

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

Directly before

的山羊3

Directly after

山羊赶进1
山羊和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 山羊

What does 山羊 mean in Chinese?

山羊 (shānyáng) means goat.

How do you pronounce 山羊?

山羊 is pronounced shānyáng.

Is 山羊 an HSK word?

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

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