HSK 5 · Verbs

出席 chūxí “to attend” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 出席 means

  1. to attend
  2. to participate
  3. present

How to say 出席

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale席xí2nd tone, rising

出席 in a sentence

  1. 你能出席，我真高兴。

    Nǐ néng chūxí, wǒ zhēn gāoxìng.

    I’m so glad you could come.

    Sentence #623194 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 昨天我出席了会议。

    Zuótiān wǒ chūxí le huìyì.

    I attended the meeting yesterday.

    Sentence #834366 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她因病不能出席会议。

    Tā yīn bìng bù néng chūxí huìyì.

    She couldn’t attend the meeting because she was ill.

    Sentence #5595144 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 出席 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 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 席 (xí) with each of its parts in a different colour
席xíwoven mat
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 廿twenty · niàn
  • 巾napkin · jīn

How to write 出席

出 5 strokes · 席 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 出席

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)

Words with 席

主席zhǔxí · chairperson缺席quēxí · to be absent

More words: Common Verbs

持续chíxù · to continue充满chōngmǎn · to be full of冲chōng · to rush出示chūshì · to show处理chǔlǐ · to handle传播chuánbō · to disseminate闯chuǎng · to rush创造chuàngzào · to create

FAQs

出席 (chūxí) means “to attend” or “to participate”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chūxí: chū with a 1st tone, then xí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 出席 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuxi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出席 from the suggestions. Typing chuxi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出席 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.