CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

铁杉

tiěshān

Tsuga chinensis

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

Tsuga chinensis

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 铁杉 actually appears in real sentences.

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植物园内种植了 450 多株杜鹃花，还有枫树、美国榆树和铁杉等树木，用於景观美化。zhí wù yuán nèi zhòng zhí le 450 duō zhū dù juān huā， hái yǒu fēng shù、 měi guó yú shù hé tiě shān děng shù mù， yòng yú jǐng guān měi huà。

The arboretum includes more than 450 azaleas for landscaping, but also trees like maples, American elms, and hemlocks.

越过松林，远处有一座小花园。那里青草长得又长又茂盛，铁杉花像洁白的星星一样闪耀，夜莺整夜唱歌。它整夜歌唱，冰冷的月光俯瞰著它，紫杉树张开巨大的枝干，庇护著沉睡的人们。yuè guò sōng lín， yuǎn chù yǒu yī zuò xiǎo huā yuán。 nà lǐ qīng cǎo zhǎng dé yòu zhǎng yòu mào shèng， tiě shān huā xiàng jié bái de xīng xīng yī yàng shǎn yào， yè yīng zhěng yè chàng gē。 tā zhěng yè gē chàng， bīng lěng de yuè guāng fǔ kàn zhù tā， zǐ shān shù zhāng kāi jù dà de zhī gàn， bì hù zhù chén shuì de rén men。

Far away beyond the pine-woods, there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 铁杉.

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

Directly before

和铁杉1

Directly after

铁杉花像1
铁杉等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 铁杉

What does 铁杉 mean in Chinese?

铁杉 (tiěshān) means Tsuga chinensis.

How do you pronounce 铁杉?

铁杉 is pronounced tiěshān.

Is 铁杉 an HSK word?

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

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