Don't yawn.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
打哈欠
to yawn
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to yawn
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 打哈欠 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打哈欠 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom yawned.
We yawn when we are short of oxygen.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 打哈欠.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打哈欠.
Directly before
- 会打哈欠2
- 或打哈欠1
- 一直打哈欠1
- 在打哈欠1
- 我打哈欠1
Directly after
- 打哈欠的1
- 打哈欠了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 打哈欠
What does 打哈欠 mean in Chinese?
打哈欠 (dǎhāqian) means to yawn.
How do you pronounce 打哈欠?
打哈欠 is pronounced dǎhāqian.
Is 打哈欠 an HSK word?
打哈欠 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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