吉祥物
jí xiáng wù
Pinyin

Definition

吉祥物
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jí xiáng wù
  1. mascot

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shì wù
  1. 1 thing
  2. 2 object
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
rén wù
  1. 1 person
  2. 2 character (in a play, novel etc)
  3. 3 protagonist
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
dòng wù
  1. 1 animal
  2. 2 classifier: 只 zhī
  3. 3 classifier: 群 qún
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
jí xiáng
  1. 1 lucky
  2. 2 auspicious
  3. 3 propitious
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky

Idioms (20)

一物降一物
yī wù xiáng yī wù
  1. 1 lit. one object bests another object
  2. 2 every item has a weakness (idiom)
  3. 3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
仁民爱物
rén mín ài wù
  1. 1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence
价廉物美
jià lián wù měi
  1. 1 inexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
凶多吉少
xiōng duō jí shǎo
  1. 1 everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious
  2. 2 everything points to disaster
博物洽闻
bó wù qià wén
  1. 1 to have a wide knowledge of many subjects (idiom)

Sample Sentences

猴年的吉祥物丑得不要不要的。
hóu nián de jíxiángwù chǒu de bù yào bù yào de 。
The year of the monkey mascot is beyond ugly.
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哈,你是说春晚的吉祥物,红绿灯猴么?
hā ,nǐ shì shuō chūn wǎn de jíxiángwù ,hónglǜdēng hóu ma ?
Ha, are you talking about the mascots from the CCTV New Year's gala? The traffic light monkey?
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节目倒是都没什么印象,可是对吉祥物却是印象深刻。
jiémù dàoshì dōu méi shénme yìnxiàng ,kěshì duì jíxiángwù què shì yìnxiàng shēnkè 。
I didn't really have any impression from the program, but the mascots left a deep impression on me.
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哈哈,不过笑归笑,这款吉祥物的设计师可也是大有来头哦!
hāhā ,bùguò xiào guī xiào ,zhè kuǎn jíxiángwù de shèjìshī kě yě shì dàyǒuláitóu ò !
Ha ha, jokes are jokes, but the designer of this mascot is really quite something!
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他就是北京奥运会吉祥物的设计师。
tā jiù shì Běijīng\'àoyùnhuì jíxiángwù de shèjìshī 。
He was the designer of the Beijing Olympic mascot.
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哇,猴赛雷呀!怪不得小猴吉祥物也被叫做“猴赛雷”。
wā ,hóu sài léi ya !guàibude xiǎo hóu jíxiángwù yě bèi jiàozuò “hóu sài léi ”。
Wow, the first character of the Cantonese expression for "really great!" - "hou sai lei" - sounds like the Mandarin for monkey, so no wonder the mascot is also referred to as hou sai lei.
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啊呀,你有福娃?它们就是北京奥运会的吉祥物吧,真是太可爱了!
āyā ,nǐ yǒu fúwá ?tāmen jiùshì Běijīng Àoyùnhuì de jíxiángwù ba ,zhēnshì tài kěài le !
Oh my! You have the Fuwa? They’re the mascots for the Beijing Olympics, right? They really are so cute!
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前几天我去买“福娃”时,突然想到一个问题,中国人这么喜欢龙,为什么2008年的北京奥运会没有选龙做吉祥物呢?
qiánjǐtiān wǒ qù mǎi “fúwá ”shí ,tūrán xiǎngdào yī ge wèntí ,zhōngguórén zhème xǐhuan lóng ,wèishénme èrlínglíngbā nián de Běijīng\'àoyùnhuì méiyǒu xuǎn lóng zuò jíxiángwù ne ?
A few days ago when I went to buy some ''Fuwas," I suddenly thought of a question. Chinese people like the dragon so much, why isn't the dragon the mascot of the 2008 Olympics?
原来如此,不过并不是所有的西方人都像你一样了解中国的龙文化,如果以“龙”作为奥运会的吉祥物,可能会让一些只知道Dragon的人产生不好的联想。
yuánláirúcǐ ,bùguò bìngbùshì suǒyǒu de xīfāngrén dōu xiàng nǐ yīyàng liǎojiě Zhōngguó de lóngwénhuà ,rúguǒ yǐ “lóng ”zuòwéi Àoyùnhuì de jíxiángwù ,kěnéng huì ràng yīxiē zhǐ zhīdào Dragon de rén chǎnshēng bùhǎo de liánxiǎng 。
As the Olympic mascot, maybe it would give some people who know about the Western dragon some bad mental associations.
我也这样觉得。听说不仅是吉祥物,北京奥运会主题口号和大型景观标志也即将“露面”了。主题口号已经正式定为“同一个世界同一个梦想”,表达了中国人民乃至世界人民的美好愿望。我还特别欣赏北京奥组委和教育部在全国35万所中小学中开展的奥林匹克教育活动,非常有效地传播了奥林匹克知识并弘扬了奥林匹克精神。
wǒ yě zhèyàng juéde 。tīngshuō bùjǐn shì jíxiángwù ,Běijīng Àoyùnhuì zhǔtí kǒuhào hé dàxíng jǐngguān biāozhì yě jíjiāng “lòumiàn ”le 。zhǔtí kǒuhào yǐjīng zhèngshì dìngwéi “tóng yī ge shìjiè tóng yī ge mèngxiǎng ”,biǎodá le Zhōngguó rénmín nǎizhì shìjiè rénmín de měihǎo yuànwàng 。wǒ hái tèbié xīnshǎng Běijīng Àozǔwěi hé jiàoyùbù zài quánguó sānshí wǔ wàn suǒ zhōngxiǎoxué zhōng kāizhǎn de Àolínpǐkè jiāoyù huódòng ,fēicháng yǒuxiào de chuánbō le Àolínpǐkè zhīshi bìng hóngyáng le Àolínpǐkè jīngshén 。
I feel the same. I hear that it's not just the mascots-- the slogan and large landscape poster of the games has also been revealed. The slogan is ''One world, one dream." It expresses the beautiful wishes of the Chinese people and the world. I also really enjoy the Olympic education program launched by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and the Education Ministry. It has been very effective at transmitting knowledge about the Olympics and developing the Olympic Spirit.