HSK 5 · Verbs

忽视 hūshì “to neglect” in Chinese

Traditional 忽視

What 忽视 means

  1. to neglect
  2. to overlook
  3. to disregard
  4. to ignore

How to say 忽视

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale忽hū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale视shì4th tone, falling

忽视 in a sentence

  1. 这种错误很容易被人忽视。

    Zhèzhǒng cuòwù hěn róngyì bèi rén hūshì.

    This kind of mistake is easy to overlook.

    Sentence #845118 from Tatoeba

  2. 她忽视了我所有的警告。

    Tā hūshì le wǒ suǒyǒu de jǐnggào.

    She ignored all my warnings.

    Sentence #5405533 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 这则新闻不容忽视。

    Zhè zé xīnwén bùróng hūshì.

    This news can’t be ignored.

    Sentence #13846807 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 忽视 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 忽 (hū) with each of its parts in a different colour
忽hūto neglect
  • 勿must not · wùSound part
  • 心heart · xīnMeaning part

心 hints at the meaning (heart); 勿 (wù) hints at the sound. Compare it with hū.

The character 视 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
视shìto look at
  • 礻sign form of 示 · shìSound part
  • 见to see · jiànMeaning part

见 hints at the meaning (to see); 礻 (shì) hints at the sound. Compare it with shì.

How to write 忽视

忽 8 strokes · 视 8 strokes

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

Words related to 忽视

Words with 忽

忽然hūrán · suddenly忽略hūlüè · to overlook疏忽shūhu · to neglect

Words with 视

电视diànshì · television重视zhòngshì · to take seriously轻视qīngshì · to look down on视力shìlì · eyesight视线shìxiàn · line of sight俯视fǔshì · to look down on (from above)监视jiānshì · to monitor凝视níngshì · to gaze at注视zhùshì · to gaze at鄙视bǐshì · to despise

More words: Thinking & Talking

观念guānniàn · notion光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence归纳guīnà · to sum up喊hǎn · to yell胡说húshuō · to talk nonsense幻想huànxiǎng · to fantasise记忆jìyì · to remember纪念jìniàn · to commemorate

FAQs

忽视 (hūshì) means “to neglect” or “to overlook”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hūshì: hū with a 1st tone, then shì with a 4th 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, 忽视 is written 忽視. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hushi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 忽视 from the suggestions. Typing hushi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
忽视 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.