Do you like spinach?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
菠菜
spinach (classifier: 棵)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
spinach (classifier: 棵)
02
(slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩 bócǎi)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 菠菜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 菠菜 appears in 22 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She forced him to eat spinach.
Eat up all your spinach!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 菠菜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 菠菜.
Directly before
- 喜欢菠菜6
- 吃菠菜4
- 的菠菜3
- 比菠菜2
- 讨厌菠菜2
Directly after
- 菠菜吗2
- 菠菜还要1
- 菠菜更1
- 菠菜给1
- 菠菜都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 菠菜
What does 菠菜 mean in Chinese?
菠菜 (bōcài) means spinach (classifier: 棵).
How do you pronounce 菠菜?
菠菜 is pronounced bōcài.
Is 菠菜 an HSK word?
菠菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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