胡桃夹子

胡桃夾子

hútáo jiāzi

noun

Meanings

1 nutcracker
2 The Nutcracker (1892), Tchaikovsky's ballet

Characters

foreign (in old names of imports)

peach (here: walnut)

to clamp; to squeeze

Examples

HSK 7-9

用胡桃夹子一夹，核桃就开了。

Yòng hútáo jiāzi yì jiā, hétao jiù kāi le.

One squeeze with the nutcracker and the walnut cracks open.

HSK 7-9

每年圣诞节前后，剧院都会上演芭蕾舞剧《胡桃夹子》。

Měi nián Shèngdànjié qiánhòu, jùyuàn dōu huì shàngyǎn bālěiwǔjù 《 Hútáo jiāzi 》.

Every year around Christmas, the theater puts on the ballet The Nutcracker.

Tips

culture

柴可夫斯基's ballet 《胡桃夹子》 premiered in St Petersburg in 1892 and is now staged every Christmas season around the world, Chinese cities included. 胡桃 is the older, bookish word for walnut; in a shop you ask for 核桃.

Stroke Order

胡 hú

桃 táo

夹 jiā

子 zǐ