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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

驯化

xùnhuà

to tame

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to tame

02

to domesticate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 驯化 actually appears in real sentences.

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

狗的驯化史至少有四万年。gǒu de xùn huà shǐ zhì shǎo yǒu sì wàn nián。

Dogs have been domesticated for at least 40,000 years.

猫是被埃及人驯化的。māo shì bèi āi jí rén xùn huà de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 驯化.

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

Directly before

  • 人驯化1
  • 的驯化1

Directly after

  • 驯化的1
  • 驯化史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 驯化

What does 驯化 mean in Chinese?

驯化 (xùnhuà) means to tame.

How do you pronounce 驯化?

驯化 is pronounced xùnhuà.

Is 驯化 an HSK word?

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

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