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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

痒痒

yǎngyang

to itch

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to itch

02

to tickle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 痒痒 actually appears in real sentences.

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

停!痒痒!tíng! yǎng yǎng!

Stop! You're tickling me!

我们为什么不能挠自己的痒痒?wǒ men wèi shén me bù néng náo zì jǐ de yǎng yǎng?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 痒痒.

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

Directly before

  • 的痒痒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 痒痒

What does 痒痒 mean in Chinese?

痒痒 (yǎngyang) means to itch.

How do you pronounce 痒痒?

痒痒 is pronounced yǎngyang.

Is 痒痒 an HSK word?

痒痒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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