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石榴

shíliu

pomegranate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

pomegranate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 石榴 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 石榴 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你买石榴汁了吗?nǐ mǎi shí liú zhī le ma?

Did you buy the pomegranate juice?

我午餐吃了𬞟果、梨子和石榴。wǒ wǔ cān chī le 𬞟 guǒ、 lí zi hé shí liú。

My lunch was an apple and pears and pomegranate.

龙舌兰日出由柳橙汁、龙舌兰酒和石榴糖浆调制而成。lóng shé lán rì chū yóu liǔ chéng zhī、 lóng shé lán jiǔ hé shí liú táng jiāng tiáo zhì ér chéng。

The Tequila Sunrise is made with orange juice, tequila, and grenadine.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 石榴.

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

Directly before

  • 和石榴2
  • 买石榴1

Directly after

  • 石榴汁1
  • 石榴糖浆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 石榴

What does 石榴 mean in Chinese?

石榴 (shíliu) means pomegranate.

How do you pronounce 石榴?

石榴 is pronounced shíliu.

Is 石榴 an HSK word?

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

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