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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

抽筋

chōujīn

cramp

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cramp

02

charley horse

03

to pull a tendon

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 抽筋 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 抽筋 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我刚刚腿又抽筋了,痛死我了。wǒ gāng gāng tuǐ yòu chōu jīn le, tòng sǐ wǒ le。

I just got another leg cramp and it hurts like hell.

我昨天半夜脚抽筋了。wǒ zuó tiān bàn yè jiǎo chōu jīn le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 抽筋.

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

Directly before

  • 又抽筋1
  • 脚抽筋1

Directly after

  • 抽筋了2
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 抽筋

What does 抽筋 mean in Chinese?

抽筋 (chōujīn) means cramp.

How do you pronounce 抽筋?

抽筋 is pronounced chōujīn.

Is 抽筋 an HSK word?

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

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