树袋熊

樹袋熊
shùdàixióng
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 koala

Examples

HSK 3
Dòngwùyuán lǐ xīn lái le liǎng zhī shùdàixióng.
Two koalas have just arrived at the zoo.
HSK 7-9
Shùdàixióng zhǐ chī ānshù yè, yì tiān yào shuì jiāngjìn èrshí ge xiǎoshí.
Koalas eat only eucalyptus leaves and sleep nearly twenty hours a day.

Tips

usage
Textbooks use the descriptive 树袋熊, 'tree-pouch bear', though a koala is not a bear. Everyday mainland speech says 考拉, from English, and Taiwan says 无尾熊, 'tailless bear'. 袋熊 is the wombat.

Stroke Order

树 shù
袋 dài
熊 xióng