HSK 3 · Education, Work

游戏 yóuxì “game” in Chinese

Traditional 遊戲

What 游戏 means

  1. game
  2. play
  3. recreation

How to say 游戏

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale游yóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale戏xì4th tone, falling

游戏 in a sentence

  1. 我没时间跟你玩游戏。

    Wǒ méi shíjiān gēn nǐ wán yóuxì.

    I don’t have time to play games with you.

    Sentence #5780578 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 游戏几点开始？

    Yóuxì jǐ diǎn kāishǐ?

    What time does the game start?

    Sentence #2109227 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 告诉我怎么玩游戏。

    Gàosu wǒ zěnme wán yóuxì.

    Tell me how to play the game.

    Sentence #4760093 from Tatoeba

How 游戏 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 游 (yóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
游yóuto swim
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 斿to swim · yóu

Memory aidWater 氵 gives the meaning: to swim, and from there to travel around.

The character 戏 (xì) with each of its parts in a different colour
戏xìtrick
  • 又again · yòu
  • 戈halberd · gē

How to write 游戏

游 12 strokes · 戏 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 游戏

Words with 游

游yóu · to swim旅游lǚyóu · to travel游泳yóuyǒng · to swim游客yóukè · tourist导游dǎoyóu · tour guide游览yóulǎn · to go sightseeing上游shàngyóu · upper reaches (of a river)

Words with 戏

戏剧xìjù · drama

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FAQs

游戏 (yóuxì) means “game” or “play”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it yóuxì: yóu with a 2nd tone, then xì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 游戏 is written 遊戲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youxi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 游戏 from the suggestions. Typing youxi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
游戏 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.