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栖息

qīxī

(of a bird) to perch

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(of a bird) to perch

02

(of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 栖息 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 栖息 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

那鱼栖息在淡水域中。nà yú qī xī zài dàn shuǐ yù zhōng。

That fish lives in fresh water.

蓝色的鸟栖息在树枝上，兴致昂扬地唱着歌。lán sè de niǎo qī xī zài shù zhī shàng， xìng zhì áng yáng dì chàng zhe gē。

The blue bird is perched on a branch, singing cheerfully.

迁移到南加州后，红冠鹦鹉已成为这里的永久栖息者，并被列入加州鸟类记录委员会的本国鸟类清单中。qiān yí dào nán jiā zhōu hòu， hóng guān yīng wǔ yǐ chéng wéi zhè lǐ de yǒng jiǔ qī xī zhě， bìng bèi liè rù jiā zhōu niǎo lèi jì lù wěi yuán huì de běn guó niǎo lèi qīng dān zhōng。

As transplants to Southern California, the red-crowned parrots have become such permanent fixtures that they are on the California Bird Records Committee’s list of birds in the state.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 栖息.

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

Directly before

  • 那鱼栖息1
  • 鸟栖息1
  • 海鸥栖息1
  • 永久栖息1
  • 脚尖栖息1

Directly after

  • 栖息在4
  • 栖息者1
  • 栖息和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 栖息

What does 栖息 mean in Chinese?

栖息 (qīxī) means (of a bird) to perch.

How do you pronounce 栖息?

栖息 is pronounced qīxī.

Is 栖息 an HSK word?

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

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