CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

紫杉

zǐshān

Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 紫杉 actually appears in real sentences.

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

越过松林，远处有一座小花园。那里青草长得又长又茂盛，铁杉花像洁白的星星一样闪耀，夜莺整夜唱歌。它整夜歌唱，冰冷的月光俯瞰著它，紫杉树张开巨大的枝干，庇护著沉睡的人们。yuè guò sōng lín， yuǎn chù yǒu yī zuò xiǎo huā yuán。 nà lǐ qīng cǎo zhǎng dé yòu zhǎng yòu mào shèng， tiě shān huā xiàng jié bái de xīng xīng yī yàng shǎn yào， yè yīng zhěng yè chàng gē。 tā zhěng yè gē chàng， bīng lěng de yuè guāng fǔ kàn zhù tā， zǐ shān shù zhāng kāi jù dà de zhī gàn， bì hù zhù chén shuì de rén men。

Far away beyond the pine-woods, there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

「你知道你刚才折断的是什麽树吗？」我回答侦探：「不知道。」侦探透过敞开的门往里面看，喊道：「喂，你知道他刚才折断的是什麽树吗？」一个年轻女子的声音说：「嗯，看起来像是紫杉。」侦探坐直身子后，又问了我一遍：「你知道你刚才折断的是什麽树吗？」「nǐ zhī dào nǐ gāng cái zhé duàn de shì shén mó shù ma？」 wǒ huí dá zhēn tàn：「bù zhī dào。」 zhēn tàn tòu guò chǎng kāi de mén wǎng lǐ miàn kàn， hǎn dào：「wèi， nǐ zhī dào tā gāng cái zhé duàn de shì shén mó shù ma？」 yí gè nián qīng nǚ zǐ de shēng yīn shuō：「ń， kàn qǐ lái xiàng shì zǐ shān。」 zhēn tàn zuò zhí shēn zi hòu， yòu wèn le wǒ yī biàn：「nǐ zhī dào nǐ gāng cái zhé duàn de shì shén mó shù ma？」

"Do you know what kind of tree you just broke?" "No, I don't," I answered the detective. While looking through the open door, the detective shouted, "Hey, do you know what kind of tree he just broke?" "Um, looks like it's a yew plum pine," said the voice of a young woman. After straightening himself in his seat, the detective asked me one more time: "Do you know what kind of tree you just broke?"

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 紫杉.

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

Directly before

像是紫杉1

Directly after

紫杉树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 紫杉

What does 紫杉 mean in Chinese?

紫杉 (zǐshān) means Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata).

How do you pronounce 紫杉?

紫杉 is pronounced zǐshān.

Is 紫杉 an HSK word?

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

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