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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

盆栽

pénzāi

to grow (a plant) in a pot

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to grow (a plant) in a pot

02

potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 盆栽 actually appears in real sentences.

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

为了增添节日的气氛 ,那里的人用盆栽装饰他们的家。wèi le zēng tiān jié rì de qì fēn, nà lǐ de rén yòng pén zāi zhuāng shì tā men de jiā。

People there decorate their homes with potted flowers to add to the festival atmosphere.

我要给我妈妈一个盆栽。wǒ yào gěi wǒ mā mā yí gè pén zāi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 盆栽.

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

Directly before

  • 人用盆栽1
  • 一个盆栽1

Directly after

  • 盆栽装饰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 盆栽

What does 盆栽 mean in Chinese?

盆栽 (pénzāi) means to grow (a plant) in a pot.

How do you pronounce 盆栽?

盆栽 is pronounced pénzāi.

Is 盆栽 an HSK word?

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

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