Have you ever seen a whale?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鲸鱼
whale
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
whale
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鲸鱼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鲸鱼 appears in 13 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
A whale is a mammal.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鲸鱼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鲸鱼.
Directly before
- 的鲸鱼3
- 据说鲸鱼1
- 捕捉鲸鱼1
- 过鲸鱼1
- 抓鲸鱼1
Directly after
- 鲸鱼是2
- 鲸鱼以前1
- 鲸鱼不是1
- 鲸鱼吗1
- 鲸鱼在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 鲸鱼
What does 鲸鱼 mean in Chinese?
鲸鱼 (jīngyú) means whale.
How do you pronounce 鲸鱼?
鲸鱼 is pronounced jīngyú.
Is 鲸鱼 an HSK word?
鲸鱼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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