HSK 5 · Body

脖子 bózi “neck” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 脖子 means

  1. neck

Measure word 个 gè · 一个脖子 yí ge bózi

How to say 脖子

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale脖bó2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own子zineutral tone, light and short

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

脖子 in a sentence

  1. 我的脖子还疼。

    Wǒ de bózi hái téng.

    My neck still hurts.

    Sentence #5631912 from Tatoeba

  2. 他的脖子很长。

    Tā de bózi hěn cháng.

    He has a long neck.

    Sentence #4490372 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 他大喊的时候，脖子上青筋暴起。

    Tā dàhǎn de shíhou, bózi shang qīngjīn bào qǐ.

    When he shouted, the veins in his neck bulged.

    Sentence #5617162 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 脖子 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 脖 (bó) with each of its parts in a different colour
脖bóneck
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 孛comet · bèiSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 孛 (bèi) hints at the sound. Compare it with bó.

The character 子 (zi) with each of its parts in a different colour
子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子 “chair”
  • 了clear · le
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped up.

How to write 脖子

脖 11 strokes · 子 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 脖子

Words with 子

儿子érzi · son椅子yǐzi · chair桌子zhuōzi · table杯子bēizi · cup妻子qīzi · wife孩子háizi · child本子běnzi · book子zi · (common noun suffix)裤子kùzi · pants帽子màozi · hat

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拥抱yōngbào · to embrace长辈zhǎngbèi · elder主人zhǔrén · master病毒bìngdú · virus传染chuánrǎn · to infect打喷嚏dǎpēntì · to sneeze骨头gǔtou · bone挂号guàhào · to register (at a hospital)

FAQs

脖子 (bózi) means “neck”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it bózi: bó with a 2nd tone, then zi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 脖子 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one neck is 一个脖子 (yí ge bózi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bozi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脖子 from the suggestions. Typing bozi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脖子 is an HSK 5 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.