It's a firefly.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
萤火虫
firefly
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
firefly
02
glowworm
03
lightning bug
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 萤火虫 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 萤火虫 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light” exhibit features jellyfish that glow green, anglerfish whose lantern-like bulbs dangle from their foreheads and luminous glowworms that hang mucus-like strands from cave ceilings to attract and ensnare their prey.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 萤火虫.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 萤火虫.
Directly before
- 只萤火虫1
- 的萤火虫1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 萤火虫
What does 萤火虫 mean in Chinese?
萤火虫 (yínghuǒchóng) means firefly.
How do you pronounce 萤火虫?
萤火虫 is pronounced yínghuǒchóng.
Is 萤火虫 an HSK word?
萤火虫 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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