Chinese Vocabulary
气球
balloon
qìqiú
Usage
Beyond HSK 1. 气 (gas) + 球 (ball). The story compares the whale's belly to a 气球 because both can pop.
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气球 appears in 1 podcast episode at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.