The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
蜿蜒
(of a snake) to wriggle along
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(of a snake) to wriggle along
02
(of a river etc) to zigzag; to meander; to wind
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 蜿蜒 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蜿蜒 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 蜿蜒.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 蜿蜒.
Directly before
- 斜坡蜿蜒1
- 在蜿蜒1
Directly after
- 蜿蜒而1
- 蜿蜒的1
- 蜿蜒悠长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 蜿蜒
What does 蜿蜒 mean in Chinese?
蜿蜒 (wānyán) means (of a snake) to wriggle along.
How do you pronounce 蜿蜒?
蜿蜒 is pronounced wānyán.
Is 蜿蜒 an HSK word?
蜿蜒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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