螃蟹 pángxiè crab
How to remember 螃蟹: 螃 crab + 蟹 crab = crab.
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How it is used
- Crab (the animal/food) - 吃螃蟹 (chī pángxiè) eat crab; measure word 只 (zhī).
- The idiom 第一个吃螃蟹的人 (dì-yī ge chī pángxiè de rén), 'the first person to eat a crab', means a bold pioneer.
- Everyday word.