赛龙舟

賽龍舟
sài lóngzhōu
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to race dragon boats
  2. 2 dragon boat racing

Examples

HSK 5
Měi nián liùyuè hú shàng dōu yǒu sài lóngzhōu de bǐsài.
Every June there is a dragon boat race on the lake.
HSK 5
Tāmen cūn de sài lóngzhōu duì ná le guànjūn.
Their village's dragon boat team won the championship.
HSK 7-9
Duānwǔjié yào chī zòngzi, sài lóngzhōu.
On the Dragon Boat Festival people eat zongzi and race dragon boats.

Tips

culture
Commemorates poet 屈原, who drowned himself in the Miluo River in 278 BC; villagers are said to have raced boats out to save him and thrown rice into the water to distract fish from his body - the origin story of both dragon boat racing and 粽子.

Stroke Order

赛 sài
龙 lóng
舟 zhōu