HSK 6 · Verbs

告诫 gàojiè “to warn” in Chinese

Traditional 告誡

What 告诫 means

  1. to warn
  2. to admonish

How to say 告诫

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale告gào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale诫jiè4th tone, falling

告诫 in a sentence

  1. 他告诫他们不要吵闹。

    Tā gàojiè tāmen búyào chǎonào.

    He warned them not to make a racket.

    Sentence #778490 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 告诫 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 告 (gào) with each of its parts in a different colour
告gàoto say; to tell
  • 牛cow · niú
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 诫 (jiè) with each of its parts in a different colour
诫jiècommandment
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yán
  • 戒to warn · jiè

How to write 告诫

告 7 strokes · 诫 9 strokes

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

Words related to 告诫

Words with 告

告诉gàosu · to tell广告guǎnggào · advertisement告别gàobié · to say goodbye转告zhuǎngào · to pass on报告bàogào · to inform告辞gàocí · to take leave警告jǐnggào · to warn被告bèigào · defendant原告yuángào · plaintiff布告bùgào · notice

More words: Thinking & Talking

分辨fēnbiàn · to distinguish吩咐fēnfù · to instruct附和fùhè · to echo (someone’s views)告辞gàocí · to take leave各抒己见gèshūjǐjiàn · everyone voices their own opinion歌颂gēsòng · to sing the praises of公认gōngrèn · generally recognised构思gòusī · to conceive (an idea or plot)

FAQs

告诫 (gàojiè) means “to warn” or “to admonish”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gàojiè: gào with a 4th tone, then jiè 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, 告诫 is written 告誡. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gaojie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 告诫 from the suggestions. Typing gaojie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
告诫 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.