HSK 5 · Verbs

装饰 zhuāngshì “to decorate” in Chinese

Traditional 裝飾

What 装饰 means

  1. to decorate
  2. decoration
  3. decorative
  4. ornamental

How to say 装饰

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale装zhuāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饰shì4th tone, falling

装饰 in a sentence

  1. 他们把房子装饰了一下。

    Tāmen bǎ fángzi zhuāngshì le yíxià.

    They decorated the house a bit.

    Sentence #5068344 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她用绘画来装饰墙。

    Tā yòng huìhuà lái zhuāngshì qiáng.

    She decorated the wall with paintings.

    Sentence #358132 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她用玫瑰花装饰了她的房间。

    Tā yòng méiguīhuā zhuāngshì le tā de fángjiān.

    She decorated her room with roses.

    Sentence #784578 from Tatoeba

How 装饰 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 装 (zhuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
装zhuāngadornment
  • 壮big · zhuàngSound part
  • 衣clothes · yīMeaning part

衣 hints at the meaning (clothes); 壮 (zhuàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuāng.

The character 饰 (shì) drawn as one shape
饰shìdecoration

饰 is a single shape of 8 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 装饰

装 12 strokes · 饰 8 strokes

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

Words related to 装饰

Words with 装

装zhuāng · to pretend服装fúzhuāng · dress假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign安装ānzhuāng · to install装修zhuāngxiū · to renovate武装wǔzhuāng · armed forces装卸zhuāngxiè · to load and unload包装bāozhuāng · packaging装备zhuāngbèi · equipment

Words with 饰

首饰shǒushì · jewellery掩饰yǎnshì · to cover up

More words: Common Verbs

抓紧zhuājǐn · to keep a firm grip on专心zhuānxīn · to concentrate转变zhuǎnbiàn · to change装zhuāng · to pretend追zhuī · to chase追求zhuīqiú · to pursue (a goal)组成zǔchéng · to form组织zǔzhī · to organise

FAQs

装饰 (zhuāngshì) means “to decorate” or “decoration”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhuāngshì: zhuāng with a 1st tone, then shì with a 4th 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, 装饰 is written 裝飾. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuangshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 装饰 from the suggestions. Typing zhuangshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
装饰 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.