HSK 6 · Places

坡 pō “slope” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 坡 means

  1. slope
  2. sloping
  3. slanted

Measure word 个 gè · 一个坡 yí ge pō

How to say 坡

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale坡pō1st tone, high and level

坡 in a sentence

  1. 我们爬上陡坡。

    Wǒmen pá shàng dǒupō.

    We climbed a steep slope.

    Sentence #1238444 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 山坡上有一间小屋。

    Shānpō shàng yǒu yì jiān xiǎowū.

    There was a small hut on the hillside.

    Sentence #847791 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 班上每个人都爬上了这个山坡。

    Bānshàng měi ge rén dōu pá shàng le zhè ge shānpō.

    Everyone in the class climbed this hill.

    Sentence #798322 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 坡 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 坡 (pō) with each of its parts in a different colour
坡pōslope
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 皮skin · píSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 皮 (pí) hints at the sound. Compare it with pō.

How to write 坡

坡 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 坡

More words: Places & Geography

畔pàn · bank (of a river or lake)盆地péndì · basin (geography)偏僻piānpì · remote平原píngyuán · plain丘陵qiūlíng · hills区域qūyù · area上游shàngyóu · upper reaches (of a river)山脉shānmài · mountain range

FAQs

坡 (pō) means “slope” or “sloping”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pō: pō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 坡 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one slope is 一个坡 (yí ge pō).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type po with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 坡 from the suggestions. Typing po into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
坡 is an HSK 6 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.