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大熊猫

dà xióng māo

HSK 3.0 level 3 3-character word Traditional 大熊貓

大熊猫 (dà xióng māo) means "giant panda". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大熊猫 means

1. giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

The characters in 大熊猫

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 熊xióngbear; (colloquial) to scold; to rebuke; (colloquial) weak; incapable
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem

Example sentences

• 大熊猫只住在中国里。
  Giant pandas live only in China.
• 大熊猫是一种残存的古动物。
  The giant panda is a surviving ancient animal species.
• 大熊猫被认为是中国的国宝，但在一些保护区，它仍被偷猎。
  Dàxióngmāo bèi rènwéi shì Zhōngguó de guóbǎo, dàn zài yīxiē bǎohùqū, tā réng bèi tōuliè.
  The giant panda is recognised as a national treasure of China, but in some conservation areas it is still killed by poachers.
• 中国福建省福州市动物园在训练大熊猫方面做得比它的同行多。
  Zhōngguó Fújiànshěng Fúzhōushì dòngwùyuán zài xùnliàn dàxióngmāo fāngmiàn zuò de bǐ tā de tóngháng duō.
  The Fuzhou Zoo in China's Fujian Province has done more than its counterparts in training pandas.
• 为了提高出生率，中国政府花了很多钱在大熊猫成功繁殖的研究上。
  Wèile tígāo chūshēnglǜ, Zhōngguó zhèngfǔ huā le hěn duō qián zài dàxióngmāo chénggōng fánzhí de yánjiū shàng.
  The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.

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