Is eating cockroaches a bad idea?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
蟑螂
cockroach
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cockroach
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 蟑螂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蟑螂 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Is it safe to eat cockroaches?
She's only interested in fish and cockroaches.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 蟑螂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 蟑螂.
Directly before
- 吃蟑螂2
- 和蟑螂1
- 吃活蟑螂1
- 治蟑螂1
- 怕蟑螂1
Directly after
- 蟑螂感兴趣1
- 蟑螂很1
- 蟑螂安全1
- 蟑螂会得1
- 蟑螂不好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 蟑螂
What does 蟑螂 mean in Chinese?
蟑螂 (zhāngláng) means cockroach.
How do you pronounce 蟑螂?
蟑螂 is pronounced zhāngláng.
Is 蟑螂 an HSK word?
蟑螂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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