Your knife is rusty.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
生锈
(of metal) to rust; to become rusty
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(of metal) to rust; to become rusty
02
(fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 生锈 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 生锈 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami put the rusty fork in the dishwasher.
A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 生锈.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 生锈.
Directly before
- 它会生锈1
- 刀生锈1
- 将生锈1
Directly after
- 生锈的2
- 生锈了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 生锈
What does 生锈 mean in Chinese?
生锈 (shēngxiù) means (of metal) to rust; to become rusty.
How do you pronounce 生锈?
生锈 is pronounced shēngxiù.
Is 生锈 an HSK word?
生锈 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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