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生龙活虎

shēnglónghuóhǔ

lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom)

02

fig. vigorous and lively

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 生龙活虎 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 生龙活虎 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我小睡后就感到生龙活虎。wǒ xiǎo shuì hòu jiù gǎn dào shēng lóng huó hǔ。

A little nap and, just like that, I'm as fresh as a daisy.

由于某种原因,我晚上会觉得更生龙活虎。yóu yú mǒu zhǒng yuán yīn, wǒ wǎn shàng huì jué de gēng shēng lóng huó hǔ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 生龙活虎.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 生龙活虎.

Directly before

  • 感到生龙活虎1
  • 更生龙活虎1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 生龙活虎

What does 生龙活虎 mean in Chinese?

生龙活虎 (shēnglónghuóhǔ) means lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom).

How do you pronounce 生龙活虎?

生龙活虎 is pronounced shēnglónghuóhǔ.

Is 生龙活虎 an HSK word?

生龙活虎 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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