HSK 5 · Function Words

多亏 duōkuī “thanks to” in Chinese

Traditional 多虧

What 多亏 means

  1. thanks to
  2. luckily

How to say 多亏

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale多duō1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale亏kuī1st tone, high and level

多亏 in a sentence

  1. 多亏有了他，我们才能在这里。

    Duōkuī yǒu le tā, wǒmen cáinéng zài zhèlǐ.

    We’re here thanks to him.

    Sentence #9479766 from Tatoeba

  2. 多亏了顺风，我们很快就到了那个小岛。

    Duōkuī le shùnfēng, wǒmen hěn kuài jiù dào le nà ge xiǎodǎo.

    Thanks to a tailwind, we soon reached the island.

    Sentence #842449 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 多亏了你，我还活着。

    Duōkuī le nǐ, wǒ hái huó zhe.

    Thanks to you, I’m still alive.

    Sentence #1750364 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 多亏 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 多 (duō) with each of its parts in a different colour
多duōmany; much; more; a lot of
  • 夕evening · xī
  • 夕evening · xī

Memory aidTwo 夕 shapes stacked up: many.

The character 亏 (kuī) drawn as one shape
亏kuīto lose; to have a deficit

亏 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 多亏

多 6 strokes · 亏 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 多亏

Words with 多

多duō · many多少duōshǎo · how many多么duōme · how好多hǎoduō · a lot of许多xǔduō · many差不多chàbuduō · almost多余duōyú · superfluous多元化duōyuánhuà · diversification见多识广jiànduōshíguǎng · well-informed and experienced

Words with 亏

吃亏chīkuī · to lose out幸亏xìngkuī · fortunately亏待kuīdài · to treat unfairly亏损kuīsǔn · loss (financial)

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顶dǐng · top吨dūn · tonne (loanword)顿dùn · measure word for meals朵duǒ · measure word for flowers and clouds嗯ǹg · uh-huh反而fǎn'ér · on the contrary反复fǎnfù · repeatedly反正fǎnzhèng · anyway

FAQs

多亏 (duōkuī) means “thanks to” or “luckily”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it duōkuī: duō with a 1st tone, then kuī with a 1st 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, 多亏 is written 多虧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type duokui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 多亏 from the suggestions. Typing duokui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
多亏 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.