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蝙蝠

biānfú

(zoology) bat

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(zoology) bat

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 蝙蝠 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蝙蝠 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

她讨厌蝙蝠。tā tǎo yàn biān fú。

She hated bats.

那是只蝙蝠吗?nà shì zhǐ biān fú ma?

Is that a bat?

蝙蝠在夜中觅食 。biān fú zài yè zhōng mì shí。

Bats hunt at night.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 蝙蝠.

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

Directly before

  • 把蝙蝠1
  • 只蝙蝠1
  • 讨厌蝙蝠1
  • 被蝙蝠1
  • 了蝙蝠1

Directly after

  • 蝙蝠的2
  • 蝙蝠和1
  • 蝙蝠会1
  • 蝙蝠吗1
  • 蝙蝠在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 蝙蝠

What does 蝙蝠 mean in Chinese?

蝙蝠 (biānfú) means (zoology) bat.

How do you pronounce 蝙蝠?

蝙蝠 is pronounced biānfú.

Is 蝙蝠 an HSK word?

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

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