It's a mummy!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
木乃伊
(loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 木乃伊 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 木乃伊 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Mummy cried.
Mummy's working.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 木乃伊.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 木乃伊.
Directly before
- 是木乃伊1
- 一具木乃伊1
Directly after
- 木乃伊在2
- 木乃伊哭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 木乃伊
What does 木乃伊 mean in Chinese?
木乃伊 (mùnǎiyī) means (loanword) mummy (preserved corpse).
How do you pronounce 木乃伊?
木乃伊 is pronounced mùnǎiyī.
Is 木乃伊 an HSK word?
木乃伊 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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