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蝴蝶

hú dié

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 只

蝴蝶 (hú dié) means "butterfly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 蝴蝶 means

1. butterfly

The characters in 蝴蝶

• 蝴húused in 蝴蝶
• 蝶dié(bound form) butterfly

Example sentences

• 我爱蝴蝶。
  I love butterflies.
• 我喜欢蝴蝶。
  I like butterflies.
• 蝴蝶飞走了。
  The butterfly flew away.
• 蝴蝶的寿命短。
  The life span of a butterfly is short.
• 蝴蝶都很美丽。
  Butterflies are beautiful.
• 哦，一只蝴蝶！
  Oh, a butterfly!

Words starting with 蝴蝶

• 蝴蝶结hú dié jiébow; bowknot
• 蝴蝶犬hú dié quǎnpapillon (lapdog with butterfly-like ears)
• 蝴蝶花hú dié huāiris; Iris tectorum
• 蝴蝶兰hú dié lánmoth orchid (genus Phalaenopsis)
• 蝴蝶效应hú dié xiào yìngbutterfly effect (dynamical systems theory)
• 蝴蝶领结hú dié lǐng jiébow tie
• 蝴蝶酥hú dié sūcrispy short-crust pastry; mille-feuilles
• 蝴蝶铰hú dié jiǎohinge
• 蝴蝶琴hú dié qínsame as yangqin 扬琴, dulcimer

Words containing 蝴蝶

• 鸳鸯蝴蝶yuān yang hú diéMandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and…
• 鸳鸯蝴蝶派yuān yang hú dié pàiMandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as…

Sounds the same

Read hú dié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 胡蝶variant of 蝴蝶

Where 蝴蝶 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Landscape & Wild Animals (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 hú dié correctly.
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