HSK 6 · Objects

拐杖 guǎizhàng “walking stick” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 拐杖 means

  1. walking stick
  2. crutch
  3. crutches

How to say 拐杖

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale拐guǎi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale杖zhàng4th tone, falling

拐杖 in a sentence

  1. 我的祖父要用拐杖才能走路。

    Wǒ de zǔfù yào yòng guǎizhàng cái néng zǒulù.

    My grandfather can’t walk without a walking stick.

    Sentence #795358 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 自从我弄断了两条腿，我就拄着拐杖走路了。

    Zìcóng wǒ nòngduàn le liǎng tiáo tuǐ, wǒ jiù zhǔ zhe guǎizhàng zǒulù le.

    Ever since I broke both my legs, I’ve been walking on crutches.

    Sentence #786024 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不知道把拐杖放哪去了，你有看到吗？

    Wǒ bù zhīdao bǎ guǎizhàng fàng nǎ qù le, nǐ yǒu kàndào ma?

    I don’t know where I put my walking stick. Have you seen it?

    Sentence #884681 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 拐杖 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 拐 (guǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
拐guǎito turn
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 另another · lìng
The character 杖 (zhàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
杖zhànga staff
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 丈part of the characterSound part

How to write 拐杖

拐 8 strokes · 杖 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 拐杖

Words with 拐

拐弯guǎiwān · to go round a curve

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FAQs

拐杖 (guǎizhàng) means “walking stick” or “crutch”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it guǎizhàng: guǎi with a 3rd tone, then zhàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 拐杖 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guaizhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拐杖 from the suggestions. Typing guaizhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拐杖 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.