HSK 5 · Food

壶 hú “pot” in Chinese

Traditional 壺

What 壶 means

  1. pot
  2. kettle
  3. measure word for a pot of (tea, wine)
  4. classifier for bottled liquid

How to say 壶

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale壶hú2nd tone, rising

壶 in a sentence

  1. 你要喝什么茶？泡壶柠檬红茶好吧？

    Nǐ yào hē shénme chá? Pào hú níngméng hóngchá hǎo ba?

    What tea would you like? How about a pot of lemon black tea?

    Sentence #420774 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 咖啡壶里装满了咖啡。

    Kāfēihú lǐ zhuāngmǎn le kāfēi.

    The coffee pot is full of coffee.

    Sentence #3596558 from Tatoeba

  3. 请用开水把茶壶灌满。

    Qǐng yòng kāishuǐ bǎ cháhú guànmǎn.

    Please fill the teapot with boiling water.

    Sentence #9135898 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 壶 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 壶 (hú) with each of its parts in a different colour
壶húpot
  • 士scholar · shì
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 业business · yè

How to write 壶

壶 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 壶

More words: Food & Dining

豆腐dòufu · tofu锅guō · pot果实guǒshí · fruit (of a plant)海鲜hǎixiān · seafood花生huāshēng · peanut酱油jiàngyóu · soy sauce桔子júzi · mandarin开水kāishuǐ · boiled water

FAQs

壶 (hú) means “pot” or “kettle”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hú: hú 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, 壶 is written 壺. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 壶 from the suggestions. Typing hu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
壶 is an HSK 5 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.