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牛油果

niúyóuguǒ

avocado (Persea americana)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

avocado (Persea americana)

02

shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 牛油果 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 牛油果 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我吃了五个牛油果。wǒ chī le wǔ gè niú yóu guǒ。

I ate five avocados.

今晚我买了一个牛油果。jīn wǎn wǒ mǎi le yí gè niú yóu guǒ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

有人说牛油果蘸酱油很好吃。yǒu rén shuō niú yóu guǒ zhàn jiàng yóu hěn hǎo chī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 牛油果.

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

Directly before

  • 说牛油果1
  • 一个牛油果1
  • 五个牛油果1

Directly after

  • 牛油果蘸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 牛油果

What does 牛油果 mean in Chinese?

牛油果 (niúyóuguǒ) means avocado (Persea americana).

How do you pronounce 牛油果?

牛油果 is pronounced niúyóuguǒ.

Is 牛油果 an HSK word?

牛油果 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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