How many arms does a squid have?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鱿鱼
squid
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
squid
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鱿鱼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鱿鱼 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
How many arms does a squid have?
Dan was fired because of Linda.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鱿鱼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鱿鱼.
Directly before
- 了鱿鱼3
- 有鱿鱼1
Directly after
- 鱿鱼有2
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 鱿鱼
What does 鱿鱼 mean in Chinese?
鱿鱼 (yóuyú) means squid.
How do you pronounce 鱿鱼?
鱿鱼 is pronounced yóuyú.
Is 鱿鱼 an HSK word?
鱿鱼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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