HSK 6 · Clothing

裁缝 cáifeng “tailor” in Chinese

Traditional 裁縫

What 裁缝 means

  1. tailor
  2. dressmaker

How to say 裁缝

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale裁cái2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own缝fengneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

裁缝 in a sentence

  1. 我的裁缝很有钱。

    Wǒ de cáifeng hěn yǒuqián.

    My tailor is rich.

    Sentence #10522522 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 父亲总是让这位裁缝师为他做西装。

    Fùqīn zǒngshì ràng zhè wèi cáifengshī wèi tā zuò xīzhuāng.

    Father always has this tailor make his suits.

    Sentence #804512 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 裁缝师要帮我重新修裤脚。

    Cáifengshī yào bāng wǒ chóngxīn xiū kùjiǎo.

    The tailor is going to redo the hems of my trousers.

    Sentence #13884028 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 裁缝 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 裁 (cái) with each of its parts in a different colour
裁cáito cut out
  • 十ten · shí
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 衣clothes · yī
The character 缝 (féng) with each of its parts in a different colour
缝féngto sewlight in 裁缝
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 逢to happen to meet · féngSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 逢 (féng) hints at the sound. Compare it with feng.

How to write 裁缝

裁 12 strokes · 缝 13 strokes

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

Words related to 裁缝

Words with 裁

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FAQs

裁缝 (cáifeng) means “tailor” or “dressmaker”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cáifeng: cái with a 2nd tone, then feng with a neutral 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, 裁缝 is written 裁縫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type caifeng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 裁缝 from the suggestions. Typing caifeng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
裁缝 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.