HSK 4 · Adjectives

幽默 yōumò “humour” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 幽默 means

  1. humour
  2. humorous

How to say 幽默

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale幽yōu1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale默mò4th tone, falling

幽默 in a sentence

  1. 你班上最幽默的人是谁？

    Nǐ bānshàng zuì yōumò de rén shì shéi?

    Who’s the funniest person in your class?

    Sentence #9779553 from Tatoeba

  2. 我喜欢有幽默感的人。

    Wǒ xǐhuan yǒu yōumògǎn de rén.

    I like people with a sense of humour.

    Sentence #1240252 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们的老师非常有幽默感。

    Wǒmen de lǎoshī fēicháng yǒu yōumògǎn.

    Our teacher has a great sense of humour.

    Sentence #1416246 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 幽默 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 幽 (yōu) with each of its parts in a different colour
幽yōuremote
  • 山mountain · shān
  • 幺tiny · yāo
  • 幺tiny · yāo
The character 默 (mò) with each of its parts in a different colour
默mòsilent
  • 黑black · hēi
  • 犬dog · quǎn

How to write 幽默

幽 9 strokes · 默 16 strokes

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

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

Words related to 幽默

Words with 默

沉默chénmò · silent默默mòmò · silently潜移默化qiányímòhuà · to influence subtly over time

More words: Adjectives

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FAQs

幽默 (yōumò) means “humour” or “humorous”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yōumò: yōu with a 1st tone, then mò with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 幽默 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youmo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 幽默 from the suggestions. Typing youmo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
幽默 is an HSK 4 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.