HSK 6 · Body

呕吐 ǒutù “to vomit” in Chinese

Traditional 嘔吐

What 呕吐 means

  1. to vomit
  2. to throw up

How to say 呕吐

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale呕ǒu3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale吐tù4th tone, falling

呕吐 in a sentence

  1. 你是否有恶心呕吐的感觉。

    Nǐ shìfǒu yǒu ěxin ǒutù de gǎnjué.

    Do you have any nausea or vomiting?

    Sentence #6014700 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 呕吐 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 呕 (ǒu) with each of its parts in a different colour
呕ǒuvomit
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 区area · qūSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 区 (qū) hints at the sound. Compare it with ǒu.

The character 吐 (tǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
吐tùto vomit
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 土earth · tǔSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 土 (tǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with tù.

How to write 呕吐

呕 7 strokes · 吐 6 strokes

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

Words related to 呕吐

Words with 吐

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FAQs

呕吐 (ǒutù) means “to vomit” or “to throw up”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ǒutù: ǒu with a 3rd tone, then tù 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, 呕吐 is written 嘔吐. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type outu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 呕吐 from the suggestions. Typing outu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
呕吐 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.