He is a coward.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
懦夫
coward
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
coward
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 懦夫 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 懦夫 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You are not a coward.
You are not a coward.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 懦夫.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 懦夫.
Directly before
- 个懦夫3
- 称为懦夫1
Directly after
- 懦夫难赢1
- 懦夫很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 懦夫
What does 懦夫 mean in Chinese?
懦夫 (nuòfū) means coward.
How do you pronounce 懦夫?
懦夫 is pronounced nuòfū.
Is 懦夫 an HSK word?
懦夫 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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