HSK 6 · Body

喉咙 hóulóng “throat” in Chinese

Traditional 喉嚨

What 喉咙 means

  1. throat

How to say 喉咙

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale喉hóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale咙lóng2nd tone, rising

喉咙 in a sentence

  1. 我喉咙很干。

    Wǒ hóulóng hěn gān.

    My throat feels dry.

    Sentence #333589 from Tatoeba

  2. 医生检查了我的喉咙。

    Yīshēng jiǎnchá le wǒ de hóulóng.

    The doctor examined my throat.

    Sentence #842304 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 他清了清喉咙。

    Tā qīng le qīng hóulóng.

    He cleared his throat.

    Sentence #4506371 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 喉咙 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 喉 (hóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
喉hóuthroat
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 侯marquis · hóuSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 侯 (hóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with hóu.

The character 咙 (lóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
咙lóng
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 龙dragon · lóngSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 龙 (lóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with lóng.

How to write 喉咙

喉 12 strokes · 咙 8 strokes

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

Words related to 喉咙

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FAQs

喉咙 (hóulóng) means “throat”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hóulóng: hóu with a 2nd tone, then lóng with a 2nd 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, 喉咙 is written 喉嚨. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type houlong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 喉咙 from the suggestions. Typing houlong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
喉咙 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.