The parrot is dead.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
鹦鹉
parrot
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
parrot
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 鹦鹉 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 鹦鹉 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Did you feed the parrots?
A parrot can mimic a person's voice.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 鹦鹉.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 鹦鹉.
Directly before
- 的鹦鹉2
- 只鹦鹉2
- 一只鹦鹉1
- 喂鹦鹉1
- 红冠鹦鹉1
Directly after
- 鹦鹉懂得1
- 鹦鹉会1
- 鹦鹉之后1
- 鹦鹉作为1
- 鹦鹉死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 鹦鹉
What does 鹦鹉 mean in Chinese?
鹦鹉 (yīngwǔ) means parrot.
How do you pronounce 鹦鹉?
鹦鹉 is pronounced yīngwǔ.
Is 鹦鹉 an HSK word?
鹦鹉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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