HSK 6 · Transport

港口 gǎngkǒu “port” in Chinese

Said as gángkǒu

Same in Traditional

What 港口 means

  1. port
  2. harbour

How to say 港口

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale港gǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale口kǒu3rd tone, dipping

Said as gángkǒu. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

港口 in a sentence

  1. 船驶入了港口。

    Chuán shǐrù le gǎngkǒu.

    The ship sailed into port.

    Sentence #13109446 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 迷路的渔船安全地返回了港口。

    Mílù de yúchuán ānquán de fǎnhuí le gǎngkǒu.

    The lost fishing boat returned safely to harbour.

    Sentence #334773 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 汽笛声响起，船开始慢慢地驶离港口。

    Qìdíshēng xiǎngqǐ, chuán kāishǐ mànmàn de shǐlí gǎngkǒu.

    A whistle sounded, and the boat slowly began to pull out of port.

    Sentence #332689 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 港口 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 港 (gǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
港gǎngharbour
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 巷alley · xiàngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 巷 (xiàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gǎng.

The character 口 (kǒu) with each of its parts in a different colour
口kǒumouth
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidDrawn from an open mouth.

How to write 港口

港 12 strokes · 口 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 港口

Words with 港

港湾gǎngwān · harbour

Words with 口

门口ménkǒu · doorway口kǒu · mouth路口lùkǒu · intersection入口rùkǒu · entrance口味kǒuwèi · taste胃口wèikǒu · appetite借口jièkǒu · to use as an excuse出口chūkǒu · exit进口jìnkǒu · to import人口rénkǒu · population

More words: Everyday Things

登陆dēnglù · to land颠簸diānbǒ · to jolt抵达dǐdá · to arrive动身dòngshēn · to set out观光guānguāng · to go sightseeing轨道guǐdào · orbit航空hángkōng · aviation航行hángxíng · to sail

FAQs

港口 (gǎngkǒu) means “port” or “harbour”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gǎngkǒu: gǎng with a 3rd tone, then kǒu with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like gángkǒu. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 港口 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gangkou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 港口 from the suggestions. Typing gangkou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
港口 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.