He is good at rugby.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
橄榄球
football played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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football played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 橄榄球 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 橄榄球 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
How do you say "rugby" in English?
He was a rugby player.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 橄榄球.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 橄榄球.
Directly before
- 英式橄榄球2
- 擅长橄榄球1
- 喜欢橄榄球1
- 了橄榄球1
Directly after
- 橄榄球要1
- 橄榄球英语1
- 橄榄球运动员1
- 橄榄球社团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 橄榄球
What does 橄榄球 mean in Chinese?
橄榄球 (gǎnlǎnqiú) means football played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc).
How do you pronounce 橄榄球?
橄榄球 is pronounced gǎnlǎnqiú.
Is 橄榄球 an HSK word?
橄榄球 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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