HSK 6 · Society

抗议 kàngyì “to protest” in Chinese

Traditional 抗議

What 抗议 means

  1. to protest

How to say 抗议

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale抗kàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale议yì4th tone, falling

抗议 in a sentence

  1. 狗停下了脚步，好像在抗议。

    Gǒu tíngxià le jiǎobù, hǎoxiàng zài kàngyì.

    The dog stopped walking, as if in protest.

    Sentence #12438588 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 她们在抗议啥呀？

    Tāmen zài kàngyì shá ya?

    What are they protesting about?

    Sentence #10580073 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 美国的工人开始抗议。

    Měiguó de gōngrén kāishǐ kàngyì.

    American workers began to protest.

    Sentence #10188034 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 抗议 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 抗 (kàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
抗kàngto resist
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 亢high · kàng
The character 议 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
议yìto comment on
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 义right conduct · yìSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 义 (yì) hints at the sound. Compare it with yì.

How to write 抗议

抗 7 strokes · 议 5 strokes

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

Words related to 抗议

Words with 抗

抵抗dǐkàng · to resist对抗duìkàng · to resist反抗fǎnkàng · to resist

Words with 议

会议huìyì · meeting建议jiànyì · to propose议论yìlùn · to comment倡议chàngyì · to propose提议tíyì · to propose协议xiéyì · agreement争议zhēngyì · dispute不可思议bùkěsīyì · unimaginable

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纠纷jiūfēn · dispute救济jiùjì · to give relief to拘留jūliú · to detain军队jūnduì · army联盟liánméng · alliance礼节lǐjié · etiquette领事馆lǐngshìguǎn · consulate领袖lǐngxiù · leader

FAQs

抗议 (kàngyì) means “to protest”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kàngyì: kàng with a 4th tone, then yì 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, 抗议 is written 抗議. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kangyi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抗议 from the suggestions. Typing kangyi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抗议 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.