The plural form of "louse" is "lice".
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
虱子
louse (Pediculus humanus)
IN A VIDEO虱子
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
louse (Pediculus humanus)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 虱子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 虱子 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Life is a magnificent gown full of lice.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 虱子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 虱子.
Directly before
- 爬满了虱子1
- 有虱子1
- 小心虱子1
- 七只虱子1
Directly after
- 虱子们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 虱子
What does 虱子 mean in Chinese?
虱子 (shīzi) means louse (Pediculus humanus).
How do you pronounce 虱子?
虱子 is pronounced shīzi.
Is 虱子 an HSK word?
虱子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.