It's on the tip of my tongue.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
舌尖
tip of tongue
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
tip of tongue
02
apical
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 舌尖 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 舌尖 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's on the tip of my tongue.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 舌尖.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 舌尖.
Directly before
- 到舌尖1
- 的舌尖1
Directly after
- 舌尖上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 舌尖
What does 舌尖 mean in Chinese?
舌尖 (shéjiān) means tip of tongue.
How do you pronounce 舌尖?
舌尖 is pronounced shéjiān.
Is 舌尖 an HSK word?
舌尖 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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