HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Things

图 tú “picture” in Chinese

Traditional 圖

What 图 means

  1. picture
  2. drawing
  3. diagram
  4. map
  5. chart
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to plan

Measure word 张 zhāng · 一张图 yì zhāng tú

How to say 图

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale图tú2nd tone, rising

图 in a sentence

  1. 请看这幅图。

    Qǐng kàn zhè fú tú.

    Look at this picture.

    Sentence #405777 from Tatoeba

  2. 您能把地图传真给我吗？

    Nín néng bǎ dìtú chuánzhēn gěi wǒ ma?

    Could you fax me the map?

    Sentence #346811 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 图 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 图 (tú) with each of its parts in a different colour
图túdiagram
  • 囗enclosure · wéi
  • 冬part of the character

Memory aidSimplified from 圖. Picture a border 囗 drawn around the land: a map, a picture.

How to write 图

图 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 图

Words with 图

地图dìtú · map图书馆túshūguǎn · library企图qǐtú · to attempt试图shìtú · to attempt图案tú'àn · pattern意图yìtú · intention

More words: Things & Objects

电话diànhuà · telephone男朋友nánpéngyou · boyfriend女朋友nǚpéngyou · girlfriend牙刷yáshuā · toothbrush雨衣yǔyī · raincoat电子书diànzǐshū · e-book银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card油yóu · oil

FAQs

图 (tú) means “picture” or “drawing”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it tú: tú with a 2nd 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, 图 is written 圖. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 张 (zhāng). For example, one picture is 一张图 (yì zhāng tú).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 图 from the suggestions. Typing tu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
图 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older 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.