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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

牙医

yáyī

dentist

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

dentist

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 牙医 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 牙医 appears in 33 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你应该去看牙医。nǐ yīng gāi qù kàn yá yī。

You ought to see a dentist.

你最好去看牙医。nǐ zuì hǎo qù kàn yá yī。

You had better go to the dentist's.

今天我去看了牙医。jīn tiān wǒ qù kàn le yá yī。

Today I went to the dentist's.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 牙医.

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

Directly before

  • 看牙医13
  • 的牙医4
  • 了牙医2
  • 在牙医2
  • 一名牙医1

Directly after

  • 牙医那儿2
  • 牙医了2
  • 牙医用1
  • 牙医吗1
  • 牙医的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 牙医

What does 牙医 mean in Chinese?

牙医 (yáyī) means dentist.

How do you pronounce 牙医?

牙医 is pronounced yáyī.

Is 牙医 an HSK word?

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

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