The snail retreated into its shell.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
蜗牛
snail
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
snail
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 蜗牛 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蜗牛 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A snail's shell is spiral in form.
The snail drew in its feelers.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 蜗牛.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 蜗牛.
Directly before
- 吃蜗牛2
- 只蜗牛1
Directly after
- 蜗牛缩进1
- 蜗牛一直1
- 蜗牛真1
- 蜗牛壳1
- 蜗牛把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 蜗牛
What does 蜗牛 mean in Chinese?
蜗牛 (wōniú) means snail.
How do you pronounce 蜗牛?
蜗牛 is pronounced wōniú.
Is 蜗牛 an HSK word?
蜗牛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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