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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

落汤鸡

luòtāngjī

a person who looks drenched and bedraggled

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

a person who looks drenched and bedraggled

02

like a drowned rat

03

deep distress

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 落汤鸡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 落汤鸡 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我被雨淋成了落汤鸡。wǒ bèi yǔ lín chéng le luò tāng jī。

I was utterly soaked by the downpour.

我被淋成了落汤鸡。wǒ bèi lín chéng le luò tāng jī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

昨天下雨,皮皮的毛全都打湿了,看起来像只落汤鸡。zuó tiān xià yǔ, pí pí de máo quán dōu dǎ shī le, kàn qǐ lái xiàng zhǐ luò tāng jī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 落汤鸡.

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

Directly before

  • 了落汤鸡2
  • 只落汤鸡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 落汤鸡

What does 落汤鸡 mean in Chinese?

落汤鸡 (luòtāngjī) means a person who looks drenched and bedraggled.

How do you pronounce 落汤鸡?

落汤鸡 is pronounced luòtāngjī.

Is 落汤鸡 an HSK word?

落汤鸡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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