The octopus is in the sea.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
章鱼
octopus
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
octopus
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 章鱼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 章鱼 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
How many arms does an octopus have?
Octopi live in the sea.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 章鱼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 章鱼.
Directly before
- 的章鱼5
- 和章鱼2
- 发现章鱼1
- 一只章鱼1
- 这道章鱼1
Directly after
- 章鱼有3
- 章鱼能够3
- 章鱼小丸子2
- 章鱼是2
- 章鱼的2
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 章鱼
What does 章鱼 mean in Chinese?
章鱼 (zhāngyú) means octopus.
How do you pronounce 章鱼?
章鱼 is pronounced zhāngyú.
Is 章鱼 an HSK word?
章鱼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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