This isn't a trivial matter.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鸡毛蒜皮
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom)
02
fig. trivial (matter)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鸡毛蒜皮 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鸡毛蒜皮 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
This isn't a trivial matter.
My parents keep arguing about stupid things. It's so annoying!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鸡毛蒜皮.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鸡毛蒜皮.
Directly before
- 不是鸡毛蒜皮2
- 为鸡毛蒜皮1
- 让鸡毛蒜皮1
- 是鸡毛蒜皮1
Directly after
- 鸡毛蒜皮的4
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 鸡毛蒜皮
What does 鸡毛蒜皮 mean in Chinese?
鸡毛蒜皮 (jīmáosuànpí) means lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom).
How do you pronounce 鸡毛蒜皮?
鸡毛蒜皮 is pronounced jīmáosuànpí.
Is 鸡毛蒜皮 an HSK word?
鸡毛蒜皮 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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