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螃蟹

páng xiè

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Measure word 只

螃蟹 (páng xiè) means "crab". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 螃蟹 means

1. crab

The characters in 螃蟹

• 螃pángused in 螃蟹
• 蟹xiècrab

Example sentences

• 第一个吃螃蟹的人一定也吃过蜘蛛。
  Dì yī gè chī pángxiè de rén yīdìng yě chī guo zhīzhū.
  The first person who ate crab must also have tried to eat a spider.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read páng xiè correctly.
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