HSK 6 · Body

屁股 pìgu “bottom” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 屁股 means

  1. bottom
  2. buttocks
  3. back part

How to say 屁股

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale屁pì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own股guneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

屁股 in a sentence

  1. 起床了，太阳晒屁股了。

    Qǐchuáng le, tàiyáng shài pìgu le.

    Get up! The sun’s already shining on your bottom.

    Sentence #1766113 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 它像婴儿的屁股一样光滑。

    Tā xiàng yīng'ér de pìgu yíyàng guānghuá.

    It’s as smooth as a baby’s bottom.

    Sentence #8765053 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我屁股痛。

    Wǒ pìgu tòng.

    My bottom hurts.

    Sentence #471169 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 屁股 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 屁 (pì) with each of its parts in a different colour
屁pìfart
  • 尸corpse · shīMeaning part
  • 比compare · bǐSound part

尸 hints at the meaning (corpse); 比 (bǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with pì.

The character 股 (gǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
股guthigh
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 殳weapon · shūSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 殳 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with gu.

How to write 屁股

屁 7 strokes · 股 8 strokes

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

Words related to 屁股

Words with 股

股票gǔpiào · shares股东gǔdōng · shareholder股份gǔfèn · share

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FAQs

屁股 (pìgu) means “bottom” or “buttocks”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pìgu: pì with a 4th tone, then gu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 屁股 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pigu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 屁股 from the suggestions. Typing pigu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
屁股 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.