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脚尖

jiǎojiān

the extremity of the foot

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

the extremity of the foot

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 脚尖 actually appears in real sentences.

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

他踮著脚尖走, 所以没有人听到他。tā diǎn zhù jiǎo jiān zǒu, suǒ yǐ méi yǒu rén tīng dào tā。

He tiptoed so no one heard him.

苍蝇在镜子上游走,并不在乎脚尖栖息和奔跑映出的倒影;相反,它在光滑的表面上看到许多令它感兴趣的小东西,而我们却把这些东西当成是灰尘和污垢。cāng yíng zài jìng zi shàng yóu zǒu, bìng bù zài hū jiǎo jiān qī xī hé bēn pǎo yìng chū de dào yǐng; xiāng fǎn, tā zài guāng huá de biǎo miàn shàng kàn dào xǔ duō lìng tā gǎn xìng qù de xiǎo dōng xī, ér wǒ men què bǎ zhè xiē dōng xī dàng chéng shì huī chén hé wū gòu。

The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 脚尖.

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

Directly before

  • 著脚尖1
  • 不在乎脚尖1

Directly after

  • 脚尖走1
  • 脚尖栖息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 脚尖

What does 脚尖 mean in Chinese?

脚尖 (jiǎojiān) means the extremity of the foot.

How do you pronounce 脚尖?

脚尖 is pronounced jiǎojiān.

Is 脚尖 an HSK word?

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

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