Lemon is sour.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
柠檬
lemon
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lemon
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 柠檬 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 柠檬 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Lemons are sour.
The lemon is yellow.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 柠檬.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 柠檬.
Directly before
- 有柠檬2
- 的柠檬2
- 黄柠檬2
- 泡壶柠檬1
- 这些柠檬1
Directly after
- 柠檬的2
- 柠檬是2
- 柠檬红茶1
- 柠檬有1
- 柠檬很酸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 柠檬
What does 柠檬 mean in Chinese?
柠檬 (níngméng) means lemon.
How do you pronounce 柠檬?
柠檬 is pronounced níngméng.
Is 柠檬 an HSK word?
柠檬 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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