HSK 5 · Objects

抽屉 chōuti “drawer” in Chinese

Traditional 抽屜

What 抽屉 means

  1. drawer

How to say 抽屉

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale抽chōu1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own屉tineutral tone, light and short

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

抽屉 in a sentence

  1. 我忘记给抽屉上锁了。

    Wǒ wàngjì gěi chōuti shàngsuǒ le.

    I forgot to lock the drawer.

    Sentence #423400 from Tatoeba

  2. 最上面的抽屉里应该有一盒火柴。

    Zuì shàngmiàn de chōuti lǐ yīnggāi yǒu yì hé huǒchái.

    There should be a box of matches in the top drawer.

    Sentence #6956948 from Tatoeba

  3. 办公桌的抽屉是开着的。

    Bàngōngzhuō de chōuti shì kāi zhe de.

    The desk drawer is open.

    Sentence #1323334 from Tatoeba

How 抽屉 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 抽 (chōu) with each of its parts in a different colour
抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 由cause · yóuSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 由 (yóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with chōu.

The character 屉 (tì) with each of its parts in a different colour
屉tìdrawer; tier; traylight in 抽屉
  • 尸corpse · shī
  • 世generation · shì

How to write 抽屉

抽 8 strokes · 屉 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 抽屉

Words with 抽

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FAQs

抽屉 (chōuti) means “drawer”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chōuti: chōu with a 1st tone, then ti 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, 抽屉 is written 抽屜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chouti with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抽屉 from the suggestions. Typing chouti into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抽屉 is an HSK 5 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.