Koala bears do not have belly buttons.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
肚脐
navel
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
navel
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 肚脐 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 肚脐 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He had an infection in his belly button.
When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 肚脐.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 肚脐.
Directly before
- 的肚脐2
- 没有肚脐1
Directly after
- 肚脐看到1
- 肚脐发炎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 肚脐
What does 肚脐 mean in Chinese?
肚脐 (dùqí) means navel.
How do you pronounce 肚脐?
肚脐 is pronounced dùqí.
Is 肚脐 an HSK word?
肚脐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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