HSK 4 · Objects

窗户 chuānghu “window” in Chinese

Traditional 窗戶

What 窗户 means

  1. window

Measure word 个 gè or 扇 shàn · 一个窗户 yí ge chuānghu

How to say 窗户

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale窗chuāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own户huneutral tone, light and short

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

窗户 in a sentence

  1. 我们能从窗户看到日落。

    Wǒmen néng cóng chuānghu kàndào rìluò.

    We can see the sunset from the window.

    Sentence #503066 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 关上窗户！

    Guānshàng chuānghu!

    Close the window!

    Sentence #3976893 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 窗户还是走廊？

    Chuānghu háishi zǒuláng?

    Window or aisle?

    Sentence #9035055 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 窗户 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 窗 (chuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
窗chuāngwindow
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 囱chimney · cōngSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 囱 (cōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chuāng.

The character 户 (hù) with each of its parts in a different colour
户hùa householdlight in 窗户
  • 丶dot · zhǔ
  • 尸corpse · shī

How to write 窗户

窗 12 strokes · 户 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 窗户

Words with 窗

窗帘chuānglián · window curtains

Words with 户

账户zhànghù · bank account客户kèhù · client用户yònghù · user家喻户晓jiāyùhùxiǎo · known to everyone

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FAQs

窗户 (chuānghu) means “window”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it chuānghu: chuāng with a 1st tone, then hu with a neutral 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, 窗户 is written 窗戶. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè) or 扇 (shàn). For example, one window is 一个窗户 (yí ge chuānghu).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuanghu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 窗户 from the suggestions. Typing chuanghu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
窗户 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.