HSK 4 · Body

汗 hàn “perspiration” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 汗 means

  1. perspiration
  2. sweat
  3. to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)

Measure word 滴 dī or 头 tóu · 一滴汗 yì dī hàn

How to say 汗

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale汗hàn4th tone, falling

汗 in a sentence

  1. 我正流着汗。

    Wǒ zhèng liú zhe hàn.

    I’m sweating.

    Sentence #336502 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他开始出汗了。

    Tā kāishǐ chū hàn le.

    He began to sweat.

    Sentence #10048877 from Tatoeba

  3. 擦掉你额头上的汗。

    Cādiào nǐ étóu shàng de hàn.

    Wipe the sweat off your forehead.

    Sentence #2474903 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 汗 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 汗 (hàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
汗hànperspiration
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 干dry · gānSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 干 (gān) hints at the sound. Compare it with hàn.

How to write 汗

汗 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 汗

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FAQs

汗 (hàn) means “perspiration” or “sweat”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it hàn: hàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 汗 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 滴 (dī) or 头 (tóu). For example, one perspiration is 一滴汗 (yì dī hàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type han with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 汗 from the suggestions. Typing han into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
汗 is an HSK 4 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.