HSK 6 · Verbs

吼 hǒu “to roar” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 吼 means

  1. to roar
  2. to howl
  3. to shout
  4. to shriek
  5. roar or howl of an animal
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • bellow of rage

How to say 吼

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale吼hǒu3rd tone, dipping

吼 in a sentence

  1. 对你的电脑吼一点帮助也没有。

    Duì nǐ de diànnǎo hǒu yìdiǎn bāngzhù yě méiyǒu.

    Shouting at your computer won’t help at all.

    Sentence #4071833 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 别对我大吼大叫。

    Bié duì wǒ dà hǒu dà jiào.

    Don’t yell at me.

    Sentence #3964744 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我没有在吼。

    Wǒ méiyǒu zài hǒu.

    I wasn’t yelling.

    Sentence #2638708 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 吼 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 吼 (hǒu) with each of its parts in a different colour
吼hǒuto roar
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 孔opening · kǒngSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 孔 (kǒng) hints at the sound. Compare it with hǒu.

How to write 吼

吼 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 吼

More words: Thinking & Talking

过问guòwèn · to concern oneself with寒暄hánxuān · to exchange pleasantries哼hēng · to hum哄hǒng · to coax恍然大悟huǎngrándàwù · to suddenly realise呼唤hūhuàn · to call回顾huígù · to look back忽略hūlüè · to overlook

FAQs

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