The cat caught the rats.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
抓住
to grab hold of; to capture
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to grab hold of; to capture
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 抓住 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 抓住 appears in 44 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He caught hold of the rope.
The policeman caught the thief.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 抓住.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 抓住.
Directly before
- 他抓住6
- 小偷抓住4
- 我抓住2
- 她抓住2
- 猫抓住1
Directly after
- 抓住了22
- 抓住他5
- 抓住那个2
- 抓住汤姆2
- 抓住的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 抓住
What does 抓住 mean in Chinese?
抓住 (zhuāzhù) means to grab hold of; to capture.
How do you pronounce 抓住?
抓住 is pronounced zhuāzhù.
Is 抓住 an HSK word?
抓住 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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