HSK 6 · Nature

湖泊 húpō “lake” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 湖泊 means

  1. lake

How to say 湖泊

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale湖hú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale泊pō1st tone, high and level

湖泊 in a sentence

  1. 森林外有一个美丽的湖泊。

    Sēnlín wài yǒu yí ge měilì de húpō.

    There’s a beautiful lake just beyond the forest.

    Sentence #8935967 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 在你生活的地方有许多湖泊。

    Zài nǐ shēnghuó de dìfang yǒu xǔduō húpō.

    There are many lakes in the area where you live.

    Sentence #1776802 from Tatoeba

  3. 俄罗斯的贝加尔湖是世界上最深的湖泊。

    Éluósī de Bèijiā'ěr Hú shì shìjiè shàng zuì shēn de húpō.

    Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.

    Sentence #3668670 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 湖泊 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 湖 (hú) with each of its parts in a different colour
湖húlake
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 胡recklessly · húSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 胡 (hú) hints at the sound. Compare it with hú.

The character 泊 (pō) with each of its parts in a different colour
泊pōlake
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 白white · báiSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 白 (bái) hints at the sound. Compare it with pō.

How to write 湖泊

湖 12 strokes · 泊 8 strokes

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

Words related to 湖泊

Words with 泊

停泊tíngbó · to anchor

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FAQs

湖泊 (húpō) means “lake”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it húpō: hú with a 2nd tone, then pō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 湖泊 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hupo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 湖泊 from the suggestions. Typing hupo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
湖泊 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.