HSK 6 · Objects

锤 chuí “hammer” in Chinese

Traditional 錘

What 锤 means

  1. hammer
  2. to hammer into shape
  3. weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
  4. to strike with a hammer

How to say 锤

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale锤chuí2nd tone, rising

锤 in a sentence

  1. 锤子在哪里？

    Chuízi zài nǎlǐ?

    Where’s the hammer?

    Sentence #7772596 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你到厨房里替我把一把锤子拿来。

    Nǐ dào chúfáng lǐ tì wǒ bǎ yì bǎ chuízi ná lái.

    Could you go to the kitchen and get me a hammer?

    Sentence #420830 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这是锤子。不是我的，是向一个朋友借的。

    Zhè shì chuízi. Bú shì wǒ de, shì xiàng yí ge péngyou jiè de.

    This is a hammer. It’s not mine; I borrowed it from a friend.

    Sentence #5570685 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 锤 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 锤 (chuí) with each of its parts in a different colour
锤chuíhammer
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 垂to hang · chuíSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 垂 (chuí) hints at the sound. Compare it with chuí.

How to write 锤

锤 13 strokes

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

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

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FAQs

锤 (chuí) means “hammer” or “to hammer into shape”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chuí: chuí with a 2nd 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, 锤 is written 錘. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 锤 from the suggestions. Typing chui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
锤 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.