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马屁

mǎpì

horse hindquarters

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

horse hindquarters

02

flattery

03

boot-licking

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 马屁 actually appears in real sentences.

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

你得先拍拍他的马屁。nǐ dé xiān pāi pāi tā de mǎ pì。

You have to butter the guy up first.

哼!干嘛拍他马屁嘛!hēng! gàn má pāi tā mǎ pì ma!

No published English translation for this sentence.

怕马屁也没用!现在赶快离开吧!pà mǎ pì yě méi yòng! xiàn zài gǎn kuài lí kāi ba!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 马屁.

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

Directly before

  • 怕马屁1
  • 他马屁1
  • 的马屁1

Directly after

  • 马屁也1
  • 马屁嘛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 马屁

What does 马屁 mean in Chinese?

马屁 (mǎpì) means horse hindquarters.

How do you pronounce 马屁?

马屁 is pronounced mǎpì.

Is 马屁 an HSK word?

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

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