HSK 6 · Nature

沼泽 zhǎozé “swamp” in Chinese

Traditional 沼澤

What 沼泽 means

  1. swamp
  2. marsh
  3. wetland
  4. wetlands

How to say 沼泽

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale沼zhǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale泽zé2nd tone, rising

沼泽 in a sentence

  1. 许多苍鹭在沼泽地中生活。

    Xǔduō cānglù zài zhǎozédì zhōng shēnghuó.

    Lots of herons live in the marsh.

    Sentence #10513294 from Tatoeba

  2. 你不能在沼泽地上建造建筑物。

    Nǐ bùnéng zài zhǎozédì shang jiànzào jiànzhùwù.

    You can’t put up buildings on swampy ground.

    Sentence #896381 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他独自一人住在沼泽地里的一栋小屋里。

    Tā dúzì yì rén zhù zài zhǎozédì lǐ de yí dòng xiǎowū lǐ.

    He lives alone in a little cottage in the swamp.

    Sentence #10459888 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 沼泽 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 沼 (zhǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
沼zhǎopond
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 召imperial decree · zhàoSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 召 (zhào) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǎo.

The character 泽 (zé) drawn as one shape
泽zépool

泽 is a single shape of 8 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 沼泽

沼 8 strokes · 泽 8 strokes

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

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

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FAQs

沼泽 (zhǎozé) means “swamp” or “marsh”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhǎozé: zhǎo with a 3rd tone, then zé 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, 沼泽 is written 沼澤. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhaoze with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 沼泽 from the suggestions. Typing zhaoze into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
沼泽 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.