I love onions!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
洋葱
onion (Allium cepa)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
onion (Allium cepa)
02
bulb onion
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 洋葱 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 洋葱 appears in 18 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I like onion.
I don't like to eat onions.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 洋葱.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 洋葱.
Directly before
- 喜欢洋葱2
- 吃洋葱2
- 至洋葱2
- 除了洋葱1
- 加洋葱1
Directly after
- 洋葱比2
- 洋葱我1
- 洋葱的1
- 洋葱饼干1
- 洋葱和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 洋葱
What does 洋葱 mean in Chinese?
洋葱 (yángcōng) means onion (Allium cepa).
How do you pronounce 洋葱?
洋葱 is pronounced yángcōng.
Is 洋葱 an HSK word?
洋葱 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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