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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

西葫芦

xīhúlu

zucchini; courgette; baby marrow

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

zucchini; courgette; baby marrow

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 西葫芦 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 西葫芦 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

姐姐在市场买了一点茄子、土豆、西葫芦和大白菜。jiě jiě zài shì chǎng mǎi le yì diǎn qié zi、 tǔ dòu、 xī hú lú hé dà bái cài。

Our sister bought some eggplants, potatoes, zucchinis and Chinese cabbage at the market.

西葫芦是绿色的。xī hú lú shì lǜ sè de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

在菜场我们买了桃子、洋蓟、西葫芦、草莓和茄子。zài cài chǎng wǒ men mǎi le táo zi、 yáng jì、 xī hú lú、 cǎo méi hé qié zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 西葫芦.

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

Directly before

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

  • 西葫芦和1
  • 西葫芦是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 西葫芦

What does 西葫芦 mean in Chinese?

西葫芦 (xīhúlu) means zucchini; courgette; baby marrow.

How do you pronounce 西葫芦?

西葫芦 is pronounced xīhúlu.

Is 西葫芦 an HSK word?

西葫芦 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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