HSK 6 · Verbs

割 gē “to cut” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 割 means

  1. to cut
  2. to cut off
  3. to cut apart

How to say 割

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale割gē1st tone, high and level

割 in a sentence

  1. 她用她的小刀割断了绳子。

    Tā yòng tā de xiǎodāo gēduàn le shéngzi.

    She cut the rope with her knife.

    Sentence #8743559 from Tatoeba

  2. 他割掉了树上的几根树枝。

    Tā gēdiào le shù shang de jǐ gēn shùzhī.

    He cut some branches off the tree.

    Sentence #839194 from Tatoeba

  3. 如果天气情况允许的话，我明天就去割草坪。

    Rúguǒ tiānqì qíngkuàng yǔnxǔ de huà, wǒ míngtiān jiù qù gē cǎopíng.

    I’m going to mow the lawn tomorrow, weather permitting.

    Sentence #2138438 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 割 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 割 (gē) with each of its parts in a different colour
割gēto cut
  • 害to injure · hàiSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 害 (hài) hints at the sound. Compare it with gē.

How to write 割

割 12 strokes

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

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

Words related to 割

More words: Common Verbs

干扰gānrǎo · to disturb干涉gānshè · to interfere干预gānyù · to intervene搁gē · to put隔离gélí · to isolate更正gēngzhèng · to correct跟随gēnsuí · to follow跟踪gēnzōng · to track

FAQs

割 (gē) means “to cut” or “to cut off”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gē: gē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 割 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ge with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 割 from the suggestions. Typing ge into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
割 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.