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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

新生儿

xīnshēngér

newborn baby

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

newborn baby

02

neonate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 新生儿 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 新生儿 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

这新生儿有了个好听名字。zhè xīn shēng ér yǒu le gè hǎo tīng míng zì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

人们在教堂门口的一个篮子里发现了一个新生儿。rén men zài jiào táng mén kǒu de yí gè lán zi lǐ fā xiàn le yí gè xīn shēng ér。

No published English translation for this sentence.

人类属於哺乳类,因为新生儿需要母亲的乳汁来成长。rén lèi shǔ yú bǔ rǔ lèi, yīn wèi xīn shēng ér xū yào mǔ qīn de rǔ zhī lái chéng zhǎng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 新生儿.

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

Directly before

  • 一个新生儿1
  • 这新生儿1
  • 因为新生儿1

Directly after

  • 新生儿有1
  • 新生儿需要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 新生儿

What does 新生儿 mean in Chinese?

新生儿 (xīnshēngér) means newborn baby.

How do you pronounce 新生儿?

新生儿 is pronounced xīnshēngér.

Is 新生儿 an HSK word?

新生儿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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