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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鲱鱼
herring
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
herring
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鲱鱼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鲱鱼 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom hates the smell of herring.
Today I had some kipper for breakfast.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鲱鱼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鲱鱼.
Directly before
- 丢鲱鱼1
- 腌鲱鱼1
- 讨厌鲱鱼1
Directly after
- 鲱鱼抓1
- 鲱鱼味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 鲱鱼
What does 鲱鱼 mean in Chinese?
鲱鱼 (fēiyú) means herring.
How do you pronounce 鲱鱼?
鲱鱼 is pronounced fēiyú.
Is 鲱鱼 an HSK word?
鲱鱼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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