CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

首字母

shǒuzìmǔ

initial letters

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

initial letters

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 首字母 actually appears in real sentences.

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

谁能告诉我TATOEBA首字母缩合词的意思？shuí néng gào sù wǒ TATOEBA shǒu zì mǔ suō hé cí de yì si？

Who can tell me what the acronym Tatoeba stands for?

我们中的许多人多多少少都经历过这样的循环：面对着浏览器，习惯性地Ctrl-T打开一个新的标签页，敲下常去网址的首字母然后回车，只为了看看有没有啥新鲜事发生。wǒ men zhōng de xǔ duō rén duō duō shǎo shǎo dōu jīng lì guò zhè yàng de xún huán： miàn duì zhe liú lǎn qì， xí guàn xìng dì Ctrl-T dǎ kāi yí gè xīn de biāo qiān yè， qiāo xià cháng qù wǎng zhǐ de shǒu zì mǔ rán hòu huí chē， zhǐ wèi le kàn kàn yǒu méi yǒu shá xīn xiān shì fā shēng。

Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.

她把她姓名的首字母绣在一块白色的手帕上。tā bǎ tā xìng míng de shǒu zì mǔ xiù zài yī kuài bái sè de shǒu pà shàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 首字母.

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

Directly before

的首字母2

Directly after

首字母绣1
首字母缩合1
首字母然后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 首字母

What does 首字母 mean in Chinese?

首字母 (shǒuzìmǔ) means initial letters.

How do you pronounce 首字母?

首字母 is pronounced shǒuzìmǔ.

Is 首字母 an HSK word?

首字母 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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