HSK 5 · Verbs

讽刺 fěngcì “to satirise” in Chinese

Traditional 諷刺

What 讽刺 means

  1. to satirise
  2. to mock
  3. sarcastic
  4. irony
  5. satire
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • sarcasm

How to say 讽刺

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale讽fěng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale刺cì4th tone, falling

讽刺 in a sentence

  1. 真讽刺，不是吗？

    Zhēn fěngcì, bú shì ma?

    That’s ironic, isn’t it?

    Sentence #14067863 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 很讽刺吧？

    Hěn fěngcì ba?

    Pretty ironic, isn’t it?

    Sentence #14068879 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 讽刺 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 讽 (fěng) with each of its parts in a different colour
讽fěngto satirise
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 风wind · fēngSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 风 (fēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fěng.

The character 刺 (cì) with each of its parts in a different colour
刺cìthorn
  • 朿thorn · cìSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 朿 (cì) hints at the sound. Compare it with cì.

How to write 讽刺

讽 6 strokes · 刺 8 strokes

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

Words related to 讽刺

Words with 刺

刺激cìjī · to stimulate刺cì · thorn

More words: Thinking & Talking

发言fāyán · to make a speech废话fèihuà · nonsense分别fēnbié · to part分析fēnxī · to analyse否定fǒudìng · to negate否认fǒurèn · to declare to be untrue概括gàikuò · to summarise感受gǎnshòu · to feel

FAQs

讽刺 (fěngcì) means “to satirise” or “to mock”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it fěngcì: fěng with a 3rd tone, then cì with a 4th 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, 讽刺 is written 諷刺. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fengci with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 讽刺 from the suggestions. Typing fengci into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
讽刺 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.