Foxes eat hens.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
母鸡
hen
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
hen
02
don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: mzī)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 母鸡 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 母鸡 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A chicken hatches an egg and a chick emerges.
That fox must have killed the hen.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 母鸡.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 母鸡.
Directly before
- 的母鸡2
- 是母鸡1
- 一只母鸡1
- 吃母鸡1
Directly after
- 母鸡昨天1
- 母鸡呢1
- 母鸡说1
- 母鸡孵蛋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 母鸡
What does 母鸡 mean in Chinese?
母鸡 (mǔjī) means hen.
How do you pronounce 母鸡?
母鸡 is pronounced mǔjī.
Is 母鸡 an HSK word?
母鸡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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