HSK 3 · Nature

刮风 guāfēng “windy” in Chinese

Traditional 颳風

What 刮风 means

  1. windy
  2. to blow wind
  3. to be windy

How to say 刮风

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale刮guā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale风fēng1st tone, high and level

刮风 in a sentence

  1. 已经刮风两天了。

    Yǐjīng guāfēng liǎng tiān le.

    It’s been windy for two days.

    Sentence #3565109 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 刮风 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 刮 (guā) with each of its parts in a different colour
刮guāto scrape
  • 舌tongue · shéSound part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoMeaning part

刂 hints at the meaning (knife); 舌 (shé) hints at the sound. Compare it with guā.

The character 风 (fēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
风fēngwind
  • 几table · jī
  • 乂to govern · yì

Memory aidSimplified from 風. Picture a sail 几 filled by the wind, with a swirl 乂 inside: wind.

How to write 刮风

刮 8 strokes · 风 4 strokes

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

Words related to 刮风

Words with 刮

刮guā · to blow (of wind)

Words with 风

风fēng · wind风险fēngxiǎn · risk风俗fēngsú · social custom风格fēnggé · style风景fēngjǐng · scenery麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)风味fēngwèi · local flavour风度fēngdù · manner风趣fēngqù · witty威风wēifēng · impressive

More words: Nature, Animals & Weather

草cǎo · grass动物dòngwù · animal环境huánjìng · environment马mǎ · horse鸟niǎo · bird树shù · tree植物zhíwù · plant自然zìrán · nature

FAQs

刮风 (guāfēng) means “windy” or “to blow wind”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it guāfēng: guā with a 1st tone, then fēng with a 1st 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, 刮风 is written 颳風. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guafeng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 刮风 from the suggestions. Typing guafeng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
刮风 is an HSK 3 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.