The boy lay listening to the radio.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
男孩
boy
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
boy
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 男孩 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 男孩 appears in 174 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The boy rode a horse for the first time.
She forgave the boy for his rudeness.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 男孩.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 男孩.
Directly before
- 的男孩36
- 这个男孩31
- 那个男孩24
- 好男孩6
- 这男孩4
Directly after
- 男孩是16
- 男孩在12
- 男孩们8
- 男孩的7
- 男孩把4
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 男孩
What does 男孩 mean in Chinese?
男孩 (nánhái) means boy.
How do you pronounce 男孩?
男孩 is pronounced nánhái.
Is 男孩 an HSK word?
男孩 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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