There are cats on Mars, too.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
火星
spark
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
spark
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 火星 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火星 appears in 43 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Is there any life on Mars?
Mars has two moons.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 火星.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 火星.
Directly before
- 在火星6
- 登陆火星2
- 的火星2
- 据说火星1
- 以为火星1
Directly after
- 火星上16
- 火星的6
- 火星有4
- 火星是3
- 火星表面2
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 火星
What does 火星 mean in Chinese?
火星 (huǒxīng) means spark.
How do you pronounce 火星?
火星 is pronounced huǒxīng.
Is 火星 an HSK word?
火星 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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