Should I wash the lettuce?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
莴苣
lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 莴苣 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 莴苣 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Snails have been eating our lettuces.
"Tom chopped up the manuscript like it was iceberg lettuce." "Sounds brutal." "It was, but it was also necessary."
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 莴苣.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 莴苣.
Directly before
- 的莴苣1
- 洗莴苣1
- 卷心莴苣1
Directly after
- 莴苣吗1
- 莴苣一样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 莴苣
What does 莴苣 mean in Chinese?
莴苣 (wōjù) means lettuce (Lactuca sativa).
How do you pronounce 莴苣?
莴苣 is pronounced wōjù.
Is 莴苣 an HSK word?
莴苣 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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