He was covered with mud from head to foot.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
泥巴
(coll.) mud
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(coll.) mud
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 泥巴 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 泥巴 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
He scraped the mud off his boots.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 泥巴.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 泥巴.
Directly before
- 是泥巴1
- 的泥巴1
- 种泥巴1
Directly after
- 泥巴更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 泥巴
What does 泥巴 mean in Chinese?
泥巴 (níba) means (coll.) mud.
How do you pronounce 泥巴?
泥巴 is pronounced níba.
Is 泥巴 an HSK word?
泥巴 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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