HSK 6 · Objects

陶瓷 táocí “ceramics” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 陶瓷 means

  1. ceramics
  2. pottery and porcelain

How to say 陶瓷

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale陶táo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale瓷cí2nd tone, rising

陶瓷 in a sentence

  1. 我对东方陶瓷有兴趣。

    Wǒ duì dōngfāng táocí yǒu xìngqù.

    I’m interested in Asian ceramics.

    Sentence #4761589 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 陶瓷 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 陶 (táo) with each of its parts in a different colour
陶táopottery
  • 阝place
  • 匋pottery · táo
The character 瓷 (cí) with each of its parts in a different colour
瓷cíchinaware
  • 次order · cìSound part
  • 瓦tile · wǎMeaning part

瓦 hints at the meaning (tile); 次 (cì) hints at the sound. Compare it with cí.

How to write 陶瓷

陶 10 strokes · 瓷 10 strokes

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

Words related to 陶瓷

Words with 陶

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FAQs

陶瓷 (táocí) means “ceramics” or “pottery and porcelain”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it táocí: táo with a 2nd tone, then cí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 陶瓷 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type taoci with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 陶瓷 from the suggestions. Typing taoci into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
陶瓷 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.