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脑瓜

nǎoguā

skull

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

skull

02

brain

03

head

04

mind

05

mentality

06

ideas

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 脑瓜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 脑瓜 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆脑瓜灵。tāng mǔ nǎo guā líng。

Tom has a good head on his shoulders.

汤姆脑瓜不灵。tāng mǔ nǎo guā bù líng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

你的脑瓜好大,但里头空空如也!nǐ de nǎo guā hǎo dà, dàn lǐ tou kōng kōng rú yě!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 脑瓜.

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

Directly before

  • 汤姆脑瓜2
  • 的脑瓜1

Directly after

  • 脑瓜不灵1
  • 脑瓜灵1
  • 脑瓜好大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 脑瓜

What does 脑瓜 mean in Chinese?

脑瓜 (nǎoguā) means skull.

How do you pronounce 脑瓜?

脑瓜 is pronounced nǎoguā.

Is 脑瓜 an HSK word?

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

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