HSK 5 · Objects

肥皂 féizào “soap” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肥皂 means

  1. soap

Measure word 块 kuài or 条 tiáo · 一块肥皂 yí kuài féizào

How to say 肥皂

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale肥féi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale皂zào4th tone, falling

肥皂 in a sentence

  1. 肥皂没了。

    Féizào méi le.

    The soap has run out.

    Sentence #8834540 from Tatoeba

  2. 他们用肥皂洗手。

    Tāmen yòng féizào xǐshǒu.

    They wash their hands with soap.

    Sentence #471390 from Tatoeba

  3. 这块肥皂里添加了天然香料。

    Zhè kuài féizào lǐ tiānjiā le tiānrán xiāngliào.

    This soap has natural fragrances added to it.

    Sentence #8902624 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 肥皂 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 肥 (féi) with each of its parts in a different colour
肥féifat
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 巴to desire · bāSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 巴 (bā) hints at the sound. Compare it with féi.

The character 皂 (zào) with each of its parts in a different colour
皂zàosoap
  • 白white · bái
  • 七seven · qī

How to write 肥皂

肥 8 strokes · 皂 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 肥皂

Words with 肥

减肥jiǎnféi · to lose weight肥沃féiwò · fertile (of soil)化肥huàféi · chemical fertiliser

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FAQs

肥皂 (féizào) means “soap”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it féizào: féi with a 2nd tone, then zào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 肥皂 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 块 (kuài) or 条 (tiáo). For example, one soap is 一块肥皂 (yí kuài féizào).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feizao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肥皂 from the suggestions. Typing feizao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肥皂 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.