Do you like oysters?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
牡蛎
oyster
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
oyster
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 牡蛎 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 牡蛎 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Can you eat raw oysters?
Are oysters in season now?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 牡蛎.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 牡蛎.
Directly before
- 吃牡蛎1
- 那些牡蛎1
- 喜不喜欢牡蛎1
- 的牡蛎1
- 现在牡蛎1
Directly after
- 牡蛎吗1
- 牡蛎一般1
- 牡蛎当季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 牡蛎
What does 牡蛎 mean in Chinese?
牡蛎 (mǔlì) means oyster.
How do you pronounce 牡蛎?
牡蛎 is pronounced mǔlì.
Is 牡蛎 an HSK word?
牡蛎 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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