HSK 6 · Nature

窝 wō “nest” in Chinese

Traditional 窩

What 窝 means

  1. nest
  2. den
  3. lair
  4. pit or hollow on the human body
  5. place
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to harbour or shelter

How to say 窝

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale窝wō1st tone, high and level

窝 in a sentence

  1. 金窝银窝不如自己的狗窝。

    Jīn wō yín wō bùrú zìjǐ de gǒuwō.

    Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

    Sentence #333947 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我房间是个猪窝。

    Wǒ fángjiān shì ge zhū wō.

    My room is a pigsty.

    Sentence #461666 from Tatoeba

  3. 总有一天孩子们会离开自己的小窝。

    Zǒngyǒu yì tiān háizimen huì líkāi zìjǐ de xiǎo wō.

    One day, all children leave the nest.

    Sentence #8696230 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 窝 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 窝 (wō) with each of its parts in a different colour
窝wōnest
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 呙to chat · wāiSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 呙 (wāi) hints at the sound. Compare it with wō.

How to write 窝

窝 12 strokes

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

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

Words related to 窝

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FAQs

窝 (wō) means “nest” or “den”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wō: wō with a 1st 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, 窝 is written 窩. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 窝 from the suggestions. Typing wo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
窝 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.