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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

爬行

páxíng

to crawl

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to crawl

02

to creep

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 爬行 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 爬行 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

鱼类、两栖类和爬行类都是冷血动物。yú lèi、 liǎng qī lèi hé pá xíng lèi dōu shì lěng xuè dòng wù。

Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are cold-blooded animals.

蛇属於爬行类,它们用腹部鳞片爬行。shé shǔ yú pá xíng lèi, tā men yòng fù bù lín piàn pá xíng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

如果我用爬行的,也许能从栅栏下离开。rú guǒ wǒ yòng pá xíng de, yě xǔ néng cóng zhà lán xià lí kāi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 爬行.

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

Directly before

  • 我用爬行1
  • 和爬行1
  • 墙上爬行1
  • 一种爬行1
  • 於爬行1

Directly after

  • 爬行类8
  • 爬行类能2
  • 爬行的1
  • 爬行类动物1
  • 爬行类中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 爬行

What does 爬行 mean in Chinese?

爬行 (páxíng) means to crawl.

How do you pronounce 爬行?

爬行 is pronounced páxíng.

Is 爬行 an HSK word?

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

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