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黄瓜

huáng guā

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 黃瓜 Measure word 条

黄瓜 (huáng guā) means "cucumber". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 黄瓜 means

1. cucumber

The characters in 黄瓜

• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 瓜guāmelon; gourd; squash; (slang) a piece of gossip

Example sentences

• 我放几根黄瓜？
  Shall I put in a few cucumbers?
• 马不吃黄瓜沙拉。
  Mǎ bù chī huángguā shālā.
  A horse doesn't eat cucumber salad.
• 那条黄瓜多长啊！
  What a long cucumber!
• 这根黄瓜好长啊！
  This cucumber is very long!
• 她床头有一根黄瓜。
  Tā chuángtóu yǒu yī gēn huángguā.
  She has a cucumber at her bedside.
• 你能再买点儿泡黄瓜吗？
  Nǐ néng zài mǎi diǎnr pāo huángguā ma?
  Can you buy some more pickles?

Words containing 黄瓜

• 小黄瓜xiǎo huáng guāgherkin
• 拍黄瓜pāi huáng guāsmashed cucumber salad
• 酸黄瓜suān huáng guāpickle; pickled cucumber
• 腌黄瓜yān huáng guāpickle; pickled cucumber

Where 黄瓜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food, Cooking & Cuisine (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 huáng guā correctly.
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