VocabularyHSK 3 · core

狗

gǒu

dog

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

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Examples

  1. 我家有一只狗。
    We have a dog.
  2. 狗会跑。
    Dogs can run.

Collocations

一只狗小狗养狗

Mnemonic

狗 gǒu "dog" — measure word 只 zhī. In literary Chinese 犬 quǎn is preferred; 狗 is colloquial. Japanese standard is 犬 inu; 狗 is archaic in JA.

Quick check

  1. Literary Chinese for "dog"?

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