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蝗虫

huángchóng

locust

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

locust

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 蝗虫 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蝗虫 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

那不是蚂蚱。是蝗虫！nà bú shì mà zhà。 shì huáng chóng！

That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!

评论员对巫巫兹拉的声音作出了各种各样的描述：除了「烦人」、「像魔鬼一般」之外，还把它比作「一群嘈吵的大象」、「一群嗡嗡狂叫的蝗虫」、「一只准备给屠宰的山羊」、「一个装满发狂的蜜蜂的巨大蜂巢」、「一只吃了摇头丸的鸭子」等等。píng lùn yuán duì wū wū zī lā de shēng yīn zuò chū le gè zhǒng gè yàng de miáo shù： chú le 「fán rén」、「xiàng mó guǐ yì bān」 zhī wài， hái bǎ tā bǐ zuò 「yī qún cáo chǎo de dà xiàng」、「yī qún wēng wēng kuáng jiào de huáng chóng」、「yī zhī zhǔn bèi gěi tú zǎi de shān yáng」、「yí gè zhuāng mǎn fā kuáng de mì fēng de jù dà fēng cháo」、「yī zhī chī le yáo tóu wán de yā zi」 děng děng。

Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 蝗虫.

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

Directly before

  • 的蝗虫1
  • 是蝗虫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 蝗虫

What does 蝗虫 mean in Chinese?

蝗虫 (huángchóng) means locust.

How do you pronounce 蝗虫?

蝗虫 is pronounced huángchóng.

Is 蝗虫 an HSK word?

蝗虫 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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