🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

气泡

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qìpào

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bubble/ˈbʌb.əl/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2150 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"肥皂水能吹出很多彩色的气泡。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A thin sphere of liquid enclosing air or another gas.

    "The children blew soap bubbles into the sunny air."
As verb
  1. 1

    To form or produce bubbles, or to move with a bubbling sound.

    "The brook bubbled cheerfully over the smooth stones."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English bobble, likely of imitative origin mimicking the sound or appearance of air rising in liquid. It evolved in the late 14th century to describe a small hollow sphere of liquid enclosing air or gas.

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