I want beef, too.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
牛肉
beef
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
beef
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 牛肉 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 牛肉 appears in 19 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Beef is usually more expensive than pork.
Would you like some more beef?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 牛肉.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 牛肉.
Directly before
- 炒牛肉2
- 一磅牛肉1
- 蚝油牛肉1
- 我牛肉1
- 要牛肉1
Directly after
- 牛肉和2
- 牛肉好1
- 牛肉吗1
- 牛肉片1
- 牛肉通常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 牛肉
What does 牛肉 mean in Chinese?
牛肉 (niúròu) means beef.
How do you pronounce 牛肉?
牛肉 is pronounced niúròu.
Is 牛肉 an HSK word?
牛肉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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