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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

草图

cǎotú

a sketch

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

a sketch

02

rough drawing

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 草图 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 草图 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

请你帮我在这张纸上画个草图。qǐng nǐ bāng wǒ zài zhè zhāng zhǐ shàng huà gè cǎo tú。

Can you sketch it for me on this piece of paper please?

这个项目是由去年我在一个派对上画在一张纸巾上的草图开始的。zhè ge xiàng mù shì yóu qù nián wǒ zài yí gè pài duì shàng huà zài yī zhāng zhǐ jīn shàng de cǎo tú kāi shǐ de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 草图.

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

Directly before

  • 画个草图1
  • 的草图1

Directly after

  • 草图开始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 草图

What does 草图 mean in Chinese?

草图 (cǎotú) means a sketch.

How do you pronounce 草图?

草图 is pronounced cǎotú.

Is 草图 an HSK word?

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

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