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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

筑巢

zhùcháo

to nest; to build a nest

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to nest; to build a nest

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 筑巢 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 筑巢 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

鸟儿筑巢。niǎo ér zhù cháo。

Birds build nests.

鸟用细树枝筑巢。niǎo yòng xì shù zhī zhù cháo。

Birds build nests of twigs.

鸟儿在树里筑巢。niǎo ér zài shù lǐ zhù cháo。

Birds make their nests in trees.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 筑巢.

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

Directly before

  • 树枝筑巢1
  • 鸟儿筑巢1
  • 树上筑巢1
  • 地筑巢1
  • 树里筑巢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 筑巢

What does 筑巢 mean in Chinese?

筑巢 (zhùcháo) means to nest; to build a nest.

How do you pronounce 筑巢?

筑巢 is pronounced zhùcháo.

Is 筑巢 an HSK word?

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

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