HSK 5 · Objects

柜台 guìtái “sales counter” in Chinese

Traditional 櫃檯

What 柜台 means

  1. sales counter
  2. service desk
  3. front desk
  4. bar
  5. (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)

How to say 柜台

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale柜guì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale台tái2nd tone, rising

柜台 in a sentence

  1. 我要去柜台打听这里附近有没有餐厅。

    Wǒ yào qù guìtái dǎting zhèlǐ fùjìn yǒu méiyǒu cāntīng.

    I’m going to ask at the front desk whether there are any restaurants nearby.

    Sentence #1964680 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 联合航空公司办理登机手续的柜台在哪里？

    Liánhé Hángkōng Gōngsī bànlǐ dēngjī shǒuxù de guìtái zài nǎlǐ?

    Where is the United Airlines check-in counter?

    Sentence #903043 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 他独自坐在柜台旁。

    Tā dúzì zuò zài guìtái páng.

    He was sitting alone at the counter.

    Sentence #13847492 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 柜台 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 柜 (guì) with each of its parts in a different colour
柜guìcupboard
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 巨large · jùSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 巨 (jù) hints at the sound. Compare it with guì.

The character 台 (tái) with each of its parts in a different colour
台táiyou
  • 厶private · sī
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 柜台

柜 8 strokes · 台 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 柜台

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FAQs

柜台 (guìtái) means “sales counter” or “service desk”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it guìtái: guì with a 4th tone, then tái with a 2nd 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, 柜台 is written 櫃檯. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guitai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 柜台 from the suggestions. Typing guitai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
柜台 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.