HSK 5 · Adjectives

突出 tūchū “prominent” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 突出 means

  1. prominent
  2. outstanding
  3. to give prominence to
  4. to protrude
  5. to project

How to say 突出

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale突tū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level

突出 in a sentence

  1. 他的数学成绩很突出。

    Tā de shùxué chéngjì hěn tūchū.

    His maths results are outstanding.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这篇文章的重点不够突出。

    Zhè piān wénzhāng de zhòngdiǎn bú gòu tūchū.

    The main point of this article doesn’t stand out enough.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 突出 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 突 (tū) with each of its parts in a different colour
突tūto dash
  • 穴cave · xué
  • 犬dog · quǎn
The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

How to write 突出

突 9 strokes · 出 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 突出

Words with 突

突然tūrán · sudden冲突chōngtū · conflict突破tūpò · to break through

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)

More words: Adjectives

烫tàng · very hot特殊tèshū · special天真tiānzhēn · naive透明tòumíng · transparent歪wāi · askew完美wánměi · perfect完善wánshàn · complete完整wánzhěng · complete

FAQs

突出 (tūchū) means “prominent” or “outstanding”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tūchū: tū with a 1st tone, then chū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 突出 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuchu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 突出 from the suggestions. Typing tuchu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
突出 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.