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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

金鱼

jīnyú

goldfish

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

goldfish

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 金鱼 actually appears in real sentences.

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

人是不是就像鱼缸中的金鱼一样?rén shì bú shì jiù xiàng yú gāng zhōng de jīn yú yī yàng?

Are humans like goldfish in a fishbowl?

金鱼都死光光了。jīn yú dōu sǐ guāng guāng le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

一条大金鱼在池塘里游。yī tiáo dà jīn yú zài chí táng lǐ yóu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 金鱼.

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

Directly before

  • 大金鱼1
  • 的金鱼1

Directly after

  • 金鱼在1
  • 金鱼一样1
  • 金鱼都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 金鱼

What does 金鱼 mean in Chinese?

金鱼 (jīnyú) means goldfish.

How do you pronounce 金鱼?

金鱼 is pronounced jīnyú.

Is 金鱼 an HSK word?

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

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