叼 meaning in English

diāo

to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

HSK 7-9verb5 strokes

Meaning of 叼

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

diāo
  1. to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

叼 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

汤tāng姆mǔ在zài嘴zuǐ里lǐ叼diāo了le根gēn儿ér烟yān。
Tom had a cigar in his mouth.
爷yé爷yé叼diāo着zhe烟yān管guǎn跟gēn我wǒ说shuō话huà。
Grandfather talked to me with a pipe in his mouth.
母mǔ鸟niǎo叼diāo来lái虫chóng子zi喂wèi幼yòu鸟niǎo。
The mother bird brought worms for her young ones.
我wǒ看kàn到dào了le一yī条tiáo狗gǒu。狗gǒu嘴zuǐ里lǐ叼diāo着zhe一yī块kuài肉ròu。
I saw a dog. The dog held a piece of meat in its mouth.

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叼 diāo · to hold with one's mouth · 5 strokes

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Questions about 叼

What does 叼 mean?

叼 (diāo) means "to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)" and is used as a verb.

How do you write 叼?

叼 is made of 1 character: 叼 (5 strokes). That is 5 strokes in total.

Is 叼 an HSK word?

Yes. 叼 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.