HSK 1 · Common Verbs

会 huì “can” in Chinese

Traditional 會

What 会 means

  1. can, will, know how
  2. to have the skill
  3. to know how to
  4. to be likely to
  5. to be sure to
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to meet
  • to get together
  • meeting
  • gathering
  • (suffix) union
  • group

How to say 会

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale会huì4th tone, falling

会 in a sentence

  1. 会 + verb: to know how to

    如果你会唱歌，那很好。

    Rúguǒ nǐ huì chànggē, nà hěn hǎo.

    If you can sing, that is great.

    Sentence #1083545 from Tatoeba

  2. 我不知道他什么时候会来。

    Wǒ bù zhīdao tā shénme shíhou huì lái.

    I don’t know when he will come.

    Sentence #336663 from Tatoeba

  3. 我希望你会喜欢它。

    Wǒ xīwàng nǐ huì xǐhuan tā.

    I hope you will like it.

    Sentence #3565111 from Tatoeba

How 会 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 会 (huì) with each of its parts in a different colour
会huìcan; to have the skill; to know how to
  • 人person · rén
  • 云cloud · yún

Memory aidPeople 人 getting together to talk 云 (云 meant “to say” in old Chinese): to meet, and to know how.

How to write 会

会 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 会

Words with 会

会议huìyì · meeting机会jīhuì · opportunity开会kāihuì · to have a meeting晚会wǎnhuì · evening party一会儿yíhuìr · a while运动会yùndònghuì · sports meet误会wùhuì · to misunderstand约会yuēhuì · appointment聚会jùhuì · party社会shèhuì · society

More words: Common Verbs

开kāi · to open学习xuéxí · to study请qǐng · please能néng · can爱ài · to love坐zuò · to sit打篮球dǎlánqiú · to play basketball懂dǒng · to understand

FAQs

会 (huì) means “can, will, know how” or “to have the skill”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it huì: huì 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, 会 is written 會. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 会 from the suggestions. Typing hui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
会 is an HSK 1 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.