CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

水母

shuǐmǔ

jellyfish

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

jellyfish

medusa

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 水母 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 水母 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

渔民用他的网捕到了一只紫色的水母。yú mín yòng tā de wǎng bǔ dào le yī zhī zǐ sè de shuǐ mǔ。

The fisherman caught a purple jellyfish in his net.

美国自然历史博物馆的「光之生物」展览展出了发绿色光的水母、额头上提著灯笼的琵琶鱼，以及在洞穴顶棚上悬挂粘液状细丝，用来诱捕猎物的萤火虫。měi guó zì rán lì shǐ bó wù guǎn de 「guāng zhī shēng wù」 zhǎn lǎn zhǎn chū le fā lǜ sè guāng de shuǐ mǔ、 é tóu shàng tí zhù dēng lóng de pí pá yú， yǐ jí zài dòng xué dǐng péng shàng xuán guà nián yè zhuàng xì sī， yòng lái yòu bǔ liè wù de yíng huǒ chóng。

The American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light” exhibit features jellyfish that glow green, anglerfish whose lantern-like bulbs dangle from their foreheads and luminous glowworms that hang mucus-like strands from cave ceilings to attract and ensnare their prey.

小心水母！xiǎo xīn shuǐ mǔ！

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 水母.

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

Directly before

的水母2
小心水母1

Directly after

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

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 水母

What does 水母 mean in Chinese?

水母 (shuǐmǔ) means jellyfish.

How do you pronounce 水母?

水母 is pronounced shuǐmǔ.

Is 水母 an HSK word?

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

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