Owls are my favorite animals.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
猫头鹰
owl
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
owl
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 猫头鹰 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 猫头鹰.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 猫头鹰.
Directly before
- 到猫头鹰1
- 是猫头鹰1
Directly after
- 猫头鹰是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 猫头鹰
What does 猫头鹰 mean in Chinese?
猫头鹰 (māotóuyīng) means owl.
How do you pronounce 猫头鹰?
猫头鹰 is pronounced māotóuyīng.
Is 猫头鹰 an HSK word?
猫头鹰 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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