HSK 6 · Nature

巢穴 cháoxué “nest” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 巢穴 means

  1. nest
  2. lair
  3. den
  4. hideout

How to say 巢穴

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale巢cháo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale穴xué2nd tone, rising

巢穴 in a sentence

  1. 鸟儿在树上建了一个巢穴。

    Niǎor zài shù shàng jiàn le yí ge cháoxué.

    The birds built a nest in the tree.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 山洞是熊冬天的巢穴。

    Shāndòng shì xióng dōngtiān de cháoxué.

    The cave is the bear’s winter den.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 巢穴 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 巢 (cháo) with each of its parts in a different colour
巢cháonest
  • 巛river · chuān
  • 果fruit · guǒ
The character 穴 (xué) with each of its parts in a different colour
穴xuécave
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 八eight · bā

How to write 巢穴

巢 11 strokes · 穴 5 strokes

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

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

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FAQs

巢穴 (cháoxué) means “nest” or “lair”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cháoxué: cháo with a 2nd tone, then xué with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 巢穴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chaoxue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 巢穴 from the suggestions. Typing chaoxue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
巢穴 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.