She covered the mouthpiece of the phone with her hand.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
捂住
to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 捂住 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 捂住 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom covered his face with his hands.
Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 捂住.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 捂住.
Directly before
- 手捂住2
- 要捂住1
Directly after
- 捂住了2
- 捂住你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 捂住
What does 捂住 mean in Chinese?
捂住 (wǔzhù) means to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc).
How do you pronounce 捂住?
捂住 is pronounced wǔzhù.
Is 捂住 an HSK word?
捂住 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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