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火鸡

huǒjī

turkey

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

turkey

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 火鸡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火鸡 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

这只火鸡味道很好。zhè zhǐ huǒ jī wèi dào hěn hǎo。

This turkey tastes good.

你什麽时候吃火鸡?nǐ shén mó shí hòu chī huǒ jī?

When do you eat turkey?

她是素食者,所以她没吃火鸡,而是吃了豆腐。tā shì sù shí zhě, suǒ yǐ tā méi chī huǒ jī, ér shì chī le dòu fǔ。

She's vegetarian, so she ate tofu instead of turkey.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 火鸡.

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

Directly before

  • 吃火鸡2
  • 只火鸡1
  • 的火鸡1
  • 把火鸡1

Directly after

  • 火鸡味道1
  • 火鸡吵得1
  • 火鸡从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 火鸡

What does 火鸡 mean in Chinese?

火鸡 (huǒjī) means turkey.

How do you pronounce 火鸡?

火鸡 is pronounced huǒjī.

Is 火鸡 an HSK word?

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

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