HSK 6 · Body

恶心 ěxin “to feel sick” in Chinese

Traditional 惡心

What 恶心 means

  1. to feel sick
  2. nauseous
  3. disgusting
  4. nausea
  5. disgust
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • nauseating
  • to embarrass (deliberately)

How to say 恶心

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale恶ě3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own心xinneutral tone, light and short

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

恶心 in a sentence

  1. 我有点恶心。

    Wǒ yǒudiǎn ěxin.

    I feel sick.

    Sentence #8626613 from Tatoeba

  2. 他们觉得很恶心。

    Tāmen juéde hěn ěxin.

    They felt sick.

    Sentence #9963156 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 真恶心！

    Zhēn ěxin!

    That’s disgusting!

    Sentence #9989934 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 恶心 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 恶 (è) with each of its parts in a different colour
恶ěevil
  • 亚Asia · yàSound part
  • 心heart · xīnMeaning part

心 hints at the meaning (heart); 亚 (yà) hints at the sound. Compare it with ě.

The character 心 (xīn) drawn as one shape
心xīnheartlight in 恶心

心 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a heart. On the left of a character it is written 忄.

How to write 恶心

恶 10 strokes · 心 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 恶心

Words with 恶

恶劣èliè · vile恶化èhuà · to worsen丑恶chǒu'è · ugly凶恶xiōng'è · fierce可恶kěwù · hateful厌恶yànwù · to loathe

Words with 心

担心dānxīn · to worry放心fàngxīn · relax关心guānxīn · concerned about/with小心xiǎoxīn · be careful心里xīnlǐ · in one’s heart心xīn · heart伤心shāngxīn · to grieve粗心cūxīn · careless耐心nàixīn · to be patient开心kāixīn · to feel happy

More words: People, Body & Health

残疾cánjí · disability喘气chuǎnqì · to pant动脉dòngmài · artery哆嗦duōsuo · to tremble防治fángzhì · to prevent and treat (disease)发炎fāyán · to become inflamed发育fāyù · to develop肺fèi · lung

FAQs

恶心 (ěxin) means “to feel sick” or “nauseous”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ěxin: ě with a 3rd tone, then xin 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, 恶心 is written 惡心. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type exin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 恶心 from the suggestions. Typing exin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
恶心 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.