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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

皮毛

pímáo

fur

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

fur

02

fur clothing

03

skin and hair

04

superficial

05

superficial knowledge

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 皮毛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 皮毛 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他对日文只是略懂皮毛。tā duì rì wén zhǐ shì lüè dǒng pí máo。

He has only a superficial knowledge of Japanese.

他/她的大衣内衬是用皮毛做的。tā / tā de dà yī nèi chèn shì yòng pí máo zuò de。

Her coat is fur on the inside.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 皮毛.

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

Directly before

  • 略懂皮毛1
  • 用皮毛1

Directly after

  • 皮毛做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 皮毛

What does 皮毛 mean in Chinese?

皮毛 (pímáo) means fur.

How do you pronounce 皮毛?

皮毛 is pronounced pímáo.

Is 皮毛 an HSK word?

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

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