The eagle does not catch flies.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老鹰
(coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老鹰 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老鹰 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The bird was half the size of a hawk.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老鹰.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老鹰.
Directly before
- 半只老鹰1
Directly after
- 老鹰那么1
- 老鹰不会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 老鹰
What does 老鹰 mean in Chinese?
老鹰 (lǎoyīng) means (coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey.
How do you pronounce 老鹰?
老鹰 is pronounced lǎoyīng.
Is 老鹰 an HSK word?
老鹰 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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