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尾巴

wěi ba

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

尾巴 (wěi ba) means "tail". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 尾巴 means

1. tail
2. colloquial pr. yǐ ba

The characters in 尾巴

• 尾wěitail; remainder; remnant
• 巴bāto long for; to wish; to cling to

Example sentences

• 小狗摆着尾巴。
  The dog was wagging his tail.
• 有没有尾巴的猫。
  There are cats without tails.
• 孩子抓住了猫的尾巴。
  Háizi zhuāzhù le māo de wěiba.
  The child caught the cat by the tail.
• 狗摇着尾巴跟着主人。
  The dog followed its master, wagging its tail.
• 兔子有长耳朵和短尾巴。
  A rabbit has long ears and a short tail.
• 狗跟着主人，摇着尾巴。
  The dog followed its owner, wagging its tail.

Words containing 尾巴

• 拖尾巴tuō wěi bato obstruct; to be a drag on sb; to delay finishing off a job
• 留尾巴liú wěi bato leave loose ends; to leave matters unresolved
• 夹尾巴jiā wěi bato have one's tail between one's legs
• 夹起尾巴jiā qǐ wěi bato tuck one's tail between one's legs; fig. to back down; in a humiliating situation
• 大尾巴狼dà yǐ ba láng(colloquial) person who puts on an act: feigning ignorance, pretending to be solicitous…
• 翘尾巴qiào wěi bato be cocky
• 狐狸尾巴hú li wěi balit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature…
• 兔子尾巴长不了tù zi wěi ba cháng bu liǎorabbits don't have long tails (idiom); its days are numbered; won't last long
• 狗尾巴草gǒu wěi ba cǎosee 狗尾草

Where 尾巴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Depth, Identity & Form (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wěi ba correctly.
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