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橄榄球

American football; rugby

橄榄球
gǎnlǎnqiú3rd tone
Pinyin
gǎnlǎnqiú
Strokes
39
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 橄榄球

橄榄球 is written with 39 strokes (橄: 15, 榄: 13, 球: 11). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

Beyond HSK 1. 打橄榄球 means to play American football.

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橄榄球 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

他打了三年橄榄球,后来回学校学习数学。

He played American football for three years, and later went back to school to study maths.

Former NFL Player Proves a Maths Conjecture

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