HSK 3 · Body

舒服 shūfu “comfortable” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 舒服 means

  1. comfortable
  2. feeling well

How to say 舒服

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale舒shū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own服funeutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

舒服 in a sentence

  1. 你哪儿不舒服？

    Nǐ nǎr bù shūfu?

    Where do you feel unwell?

    Sentence #1216115 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 新买的衣服穿上很舒服。

    Xīn mǎi de yīfu chuān shàng hěn shūfu.

    My new clothes are really comfortable to wear.

    Sentence #9987044 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这个椅子坐着真舒服。

    Zhè ge yǐzi zuò zhe zhēn shūfu.

    This chair is really comfortable to sit in.

    Sentence #4859536 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 舒服 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 舒 (shū) with each of its parts in a different colour
舒shūto stretch
  • 舍house · shěMeaning part
  • 予to give · yúSound part

舍 hints at the meaning (house); 予 (yú) hints at the sound. Compare it with shū.

The character 服 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
服fúclotheslight in 舒服
  • 月moon · yuè
  • 卩seal · jié
  • 又again · yòu

How to write 舒服

舒 12 strokes · 服 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

舒服 (shūfu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 舒服 (shūfu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 舒服

Words with 舒

舒适shūshì · cosy舒畅shūchàng · happy

Words with 服

衣服yīfu · clothes服务员fúwùyuán · waiter服务fúwù · to serve服装fúzhuāng · dress说服shuōfú · to persuade克服kèfú · to overcome (difficulties)佩服pèifú · to admire制服zhìfú · uniform服从fúcóng · to obey屈服qūfú · to yield

More words: People, Body & Health

健康jiànkāng · health脚jiǎo · foot body part口kǒu · mouth脸liǎn · face疼téng · ache头发tóufa · hair on the head腿tuǐ · leg嘴zuǐ · mouth

FAQs

舒服 (shūfu) means “comfortable” or “feeling well”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it shūfu: shū with a 1st tone, then fu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 舒服 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shufu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 舒服 from the suggestions. Typing shufu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
舒服 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.