CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

阿嬷

āmā

(Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo p…

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

(Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. a-má)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 阿嬷 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 阿嬷 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

阿嬷每天早上都会去鸡舍捡草鸡蛋。ā mā měi tiān zǎo shàng dū huì qù jī shě jiǎn cǎo jī dàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

「妈，冰箱里的『酱油渍菇』看起来很好吃欸。可以吃吗？」「吃是可以，但吃了好像会肚子痛，要小心喔。」「啊？谁做的啊？」「啊，那个是阿公去山上采的野菇，阿嬷拿去腌的啦。」「那里面该不会混进了不能吃的毒菇吧？」「是这样吗？」「mā， bīng xiāng lǐ de 『jiàng yóu zì gū』 kàn qǐ lái hěn hǎo chī āi。 kě yǐ chī ma？」「chī shì kě yǐ， dàn chī le hǎo xiàng huì dù zi tòng， yào xiǎo xīn ō。」「a？ shuí zuò de a？」「a， nà ge shì ā gōng qù shān shàng cǎi de yě gū， ā mā ná qù yān de la。」「nà lǐ miàn gāi bú huì hùn jìn le bù néng chī de dú gū ba？」「shì zhè yàng ma？」

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 阿嬷.

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

Directly before

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

阿嬷每天1
阿嬷拿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 阿嬷

What does 阿嬷 mean in Chinese?

阿嬷 (āmā) means (Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo p….

How do you pronounce 阿嬷?

阿嬷 is pronounced āmā.

Is 阿嬷 an HSK word?

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

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