Ostriches can't fly.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鸵鸟
ostrich
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
ostrich
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鸵鸟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鸵鸟 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why can't ostriches fly?
What's the difference between an emu and an ostrich?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鸵鸟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鸵鸟.
Directly before
- 麽鸵鸟1
- 一头鸵鸟1
- 和鸵鸟1
Directly after
- 鸵鸟不会3
- 鸵鸟一样1
- 鸵鸟有什1
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 鸵鸟
What does 鸵鸟 mean in Chinese?
鸵鸟 (tuóniǎo) means ostrich.
How do you pronounce 鸵鸟?
鸵鸟 is pronounced tuóniǎo.
Is 鸵鸟 an HSK word?
鸵鸟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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