HSK 4 · Verbs

获得 huòdé “to obtain” in Chinese

Traditional 獲得

What 获得 means

  1. to obtain
  2. to receive
  3. to get

How to say 获得

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale获huò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale得dé2nd tone, rising

获得 in a sentence

  1. 他获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

    Tā huòdé le Nuòbèi'ěr Wénxué Jiǎng.

    He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Sentence #805201 from Tatoeba

  2. 只有学习才能获得知识。

    Zhǐyǒu xuéxí cáinéng huòdé zhīshi.

    Only through study can you gain knowledge.

    Sentence #344968 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我获得了好友的帮助。

    Wǒ huòdé le hǎoyǒu de bāngzhù.

    I got help from a good friend.

    Sentence #13109407 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 获得 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 获 (huò) with each of its parts in a different colour
获huòto catch; to capture
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 犾part of the character
The character 得 (de) with each of its parts in a different colour
得déto obtain
  • 彳step · chì
  • 旦dawn · dàn
  • 寸inch · cùn

Memory aidA hand 寸 picking up a shell, once used as money, while out on the road 彳: to get.

How to write 获得

获 10 strokes · 得 11 strokes

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

Words related to 获得

Words with 获

收获shōuhuò · harvest查获cháhuò · to seize (in an investigation)

Words with 得

得de · particle linking a verb to how it is done (e.g. 跑得快觉得juéde · to feel记得jìde · remember得到dédào · to get得分défēn · to score (points)懂得dǒngde · to understand认得rènde · to recognise得意déyì · proud of oneself值得zhíde · to be worth来得及láidejí · to have enough time

More words: Common Verbs

广播guǎngbō · broadcast逛guàng · to stroll好像hǎoxiàng · as if活动huódòng · activity降落jiàngluò · to descend积累jīlěi · to accumulate继续jìxù · to continue寄jì · to send

FAQs

获得 (huòdé) means “to obtain” or “to receive”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it huòdé: huò with a 4th tone, then dé 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, 获得 is written 獲得. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huode with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 获得 from the suggestions. Typing huode into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
获得 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.