HSK 6 · Verbs

迈 mài “to step” in Chinese

Traditional 邁

What 迈 means

  1. to step
  2. to stride
  3. (bound form) old
  4. elderly
  5. (loanword) mile (esp. in expressions of vehicle speed)

How to say 迈

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale迈mài4th tone, falling

迈 in a sentence

  1. 他迈着稳健的步伐登上了山丘。

    Tā mài zhe wěnjiàn de bùfá dēngshàng le shānqiū.

    He climbed the hill with steady strides.

    Sentence #1323994 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 只迈一步，你就会落下悬崖。

    Zhǐ mài yí bù, nǐ jiù huì luòxià xuányá.

    Take just one step and you’ll fall off the cliff.

    Sentence #5611430 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 迈 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 迈 (mài) with each of its parts in a different colour
迈màito step; to stride
  • 万ten thousand · mò
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

How to write 迈

迈 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 迈

Words with 迈

豪迈háomài · bold

More words: Common Verbs

笼罩lǒngzhào · to envelop搂lǒu · to hug落成luòchéng · to be completed (building)履行lǚxíng · to fulfil埋没máimò · to bury埋葬máizàng · to bury (the dead)蔓延mànyán · to spread冒充màochōng · to pass oneself off as

FAQs

迈 (mài) means “to step” or “to stride”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it mài: mài 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, 迈 is written 邁. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 迈 from the suggestions. Typing mai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
迈 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.