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鱼头

yútóu

fish head

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

fish head

02

fig. upright and unwilling to compromise

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 鱼头 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鱼头 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

妈妈喜欢吃鱼头。mā mā xǐ huān chī yú tóu。

Mom likes to eat fish-head.

我不要鱼头,也不要鱼骨。wǒ bú yào yú tóu, yě bú yào yú gǔ。

I don't want the fish head or the bones.

我不要鱼头。wǒ bú yào yú tóu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 鱼头.

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

Directly before

  • 不要鱼头2
  • 吃鱼头1

Directly after

  • 鱼头我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 鱼头

What does 鱼头 mean in Chinese?

鱼头 (yútóu) means fish head.

How do you pronounce 鱼头?

鱼头 is pronounced yútóu.

Is 鱼头 an HSK word?

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

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