HSK 6 · Verbs

呼吁 hūyù “to appeal” in Chinese

Traditional 呼籲

What 呼吁 means

  1. to appeal
  2. to call on
  3. to call on (sb to do sth)
  4. to appeal (to)

How to say 呼吁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale呼hū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale吁yù4th tone, falling

呼吁 in a sentence

  1. 我们提出了请求支持的呼吁。

    Wǒmen tíchū le qǐngqiú zhīchí de hūyù.

    We made an appeal for support.

    Sentence #908527 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 呼吁 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 呼 (hū) with each of its parts in a different colour
呼hūto call
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 乎interrogative or exclamatory final particle · hūSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 乎 (hū) hints at the sound. Compare it with hū.

The character 吁 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
吁yùto implore
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 于part of the characterSound part

How to write 呼吁

呼 8 strokes · 吁 6 strokes

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

Words related to 呼吁

Words with 呼

打招呼dǎzhāohu · to say hello呼吸hūxī · to breathe称呼chēnghu · to call呼唤hūhuàn · to call呼啸hūxiào · to whistle

More words: Thinking & Talking

呼唤hūhuàn · to call回顾huígù · to look back忽略hūlüè · to overlook混淆hùnxiáo · to confuse鉴别jiànbié · to distinguish鉴定jiàndìng · to appraise检讨jiǎntǎo · self-criticism交代jiāodài · to explain

FAQs

呼吁 (hūyù) means “to appeal” or “to call on”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hūyù: hū with a 1st tone, then yù 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, 呼吁 is written 呼籲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 呼吁 from the suggestions. Typing huyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
呼吁 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.