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动物

dòng wù

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 動物

动物 (dòng wù) means "animal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 动物 means

1. animal

The characters in 动物

• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 马是动物。
  Horses are animals.
• 动物怕火。
  Animals are afraid of fire.
• 他喜欢动物。
  He likes animals.
• 善待小动物。
  Be kind to little animals.
• 狮子是动物。
  The lion is an animal.
• 我没去过动物园
  I didn't go to the zoo.

Words starting with 动物

• 动物园dòng wù yuánzoo
• 动物学dòng wù xuézoological; zoology
• 动物性dòng wù xìnganimacy
• 动物界dòng wù jièanimal kingdom
• 动物分类dòng wù fēn lèiclassification of animals
• 动物毒素dòng wù dú sùzootoxin
• 动物农场Dòng wù Nóng chǎngAnimal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell…
• 动物油dòng wù yóuanimal fat
• 动物庄园Dòng wù Zhuāng yuánAnimal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell…
• 动物性饲料dòng wù xìng sì liàofeed made of animal products
• 动物淀粉dòng wù diàn fěnglycogen

Words containing 动物

• 哺乳动物bǔ rǔ dòng wùmammal
• 后生动物hòu shēng dòng wùmetazoa; the animal kingdom
• 非动物性fēi dòng wù xìnginanimacy
• 两性动物liǎng xìng dòng wùhermaphrodite creature
• 原生动物yuán shēng dòng wùprotozoan (bacteria)
• 真后生动物zhēn hòu shēng dòng wùeumetazoa; subkingdom of animals excluding sponges
• 低等动物dī děng dòng wùlower animal; primitive animal
• 环节动物huán jié dòng wùannelid (worm)
• 环节动物门huán jié dòng wù ménAnnelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
• 多足动物duō zú dòng wùmyriapod; centipedes and millipedes
• 节足动物jié zú dòng wùarthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs; same as 节肢动物
• 草食动物cǎo shí dòng wùherbivore
• 食草动物shí cǎo dòng wùherbivore
• 软体动物ruǎn tǐ dòng wùmollusk
• 变温动物biàn wēn dòng wùpoikilotherm (cold-blooded animal)
• 杂食动物zá shí dòng wùomnivore
• 竞技动物jìng jì dòng wùanimals used in blood sports
• 冷血动物lěng xuè dòng wùcold-blooded animal; fig. cold-hearted person
• 肉食动物ròu shí dòng wùcarnivore
• 食肉动物shí ròu dòng wùcarnivore
• 野生动物yě shēng dòng wùwild animal
• 侧生动物cè shēng dòng wùparazoan (member of the subkingdom Parazoa)
• 食腐动物shí fǔ dòng wùscavenger
• 刺胞动物cì bāo dòng wùcnidarian (member of the phylum Cnidaria, including jellyfish and corals)

Where 动物 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature & Environment (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dòng wù correctly.
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