HSK 5 · Verbs

挥 huī “to wave” in Chinese

Traditional 揮

What 挥 means

  1. to wave
  2. to brandish
  3. to command
  4. to conduct
  5. to scatter
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to disperse

How to say 挥

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale挥huī1st tone, high and level

挥 in a sentence

  1. 她挥了挥手。

    Tā huī le huī shǒu.

    She waved.

    Sentence #8969849 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她挥着她的手，直到火车消失在视线之外。

    Tā huī zhe tā de shǒu, zhídào huǒchē xiāoshī zài shìxiàn zhīwài.

    She kept waving until the train was out of sight.

    Sentence #332506 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 火车开出的时候，他们都挥手向父母道别。

    Huǒchē kāi chū de shíhou, tāmen dōu huī shǒu xiàng fùmǔ dàobié.

    They all waved goodbye to their parents as the train pulled out.

    Sentence #526558 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 挥 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 挥 (huī) with each of its parts in a different colour
挥huīto wave
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 军army · jūn

How to write 挥

挥 9 strokes

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

Words related to 挥

Words with 挥

发挥fāhuī · to bring into play指挥zhǐhuī · to conduct挥霍huīhuò · to squander

More words: Common Verbs

滚gǔn · to boil过期guòqī · to be overdue缓解huǎnjiě · to bring relief恢复huīfù · to recover及格jígé · to pass an exam or a test集中jízhōng · to concentrate计算jìsuàn · to count记录jìlù · to record

FAQs

挥 (huī) means “to wave” or “to brandish”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huī: huī with a 1st 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, 挥 is written 揮. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 挥 from the suggestions. Typing hui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
挥 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.