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滋养

zīyǎng

to nourish

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to nourish

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 滋养 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 滋养 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

胎盘的角色是滋养胎儿。tāi pán de jué sè shì zī yǎng tāi ér。

The role of the placenta is to nourish the foetus.

老子说:「上善若水。」意思是最高的善就像水一样,滋养万物却不与人争。lǎo zi shuō:「shàng shàn ruò shuǐ。」 yì si shì zuì gāo de shàn jiù xiàng shuǐ yī yàng, zī yǎng wàn wù què bù yǔ rén zhēng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 滋养.

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

Directly before

  • 是滋养1

Directly after

  • 滋养胎儿1
  • 滋养万物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 滋养

What does 滋养 mean in Chinese?

滋养 (zīyǎng) means to nourish.

How do you pronounce 滋养?

滋养 is pronounced zīyǎng.

Is 滋养 an HSK word?

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

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