HSK 4 · Work

护士 hùshi “nurse” in Chinese

Traditional 護士

What 护士 means

  1. nurse

How to say 护士

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale护hù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own士shineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

护士 in a sentence

  1. 你为什么想成为护士呢？

    Nǐ wèishénme xiǎng chéngwéi hùshi ne?

    Why do you want to be a nurse?

    Sentence #2031268 from Tatoeba

  2. 护士会告诉你怎么做。

    Hùshi huì gàosu nǐ zěnme zuò.

    The nurse will tell you what to do.

    Sentence #332607 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 一个护士量了我的体温。

    Yí ge hùshi liáng le wǒ de tǐwēn.

    A nurse took my temperature.

    Sentence #834360 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 护士 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 护 (hù) with each of its parts in a different colour
护hùto protect; to guard
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 户door · hù

Memory aidPicture a hand 扌 guarding the door 户: to protect.

The character 士 (shì) drawn as one shape
士shìmember of the senior ministerial classlight in 护士

士 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 护士

护 7 strokes · 士 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 护士

Words with 护

护照hùzhào · passport保护bǎohù · to protect爱护àihù · to cherish救护车jiùhùchē · ambulance拥护yōnghù · to support守护shǒuhù · to guard维护wéihù · to safeguard掩护yǎnhù · to cover辩护biànhù · to defend

Words with 士

博士bóshì · doctorate硕士shuòshì · master’s degree女士nǚshì · lady士兵shìbīng · soldier人士rénshì · public figure绅士shēnshì · gentleman

More words: School, Work & Culture

付款fùkuǎn · to pay a sum of money工资gōngzī · wages顾客gùkè · customer管理guǎnlǐ · to supervise记者jìzhě · reporter加班jiābān · to work overtime价格jiàgé · price奖金jiǎngjīn · bonus

FAQs

护士 (hùshi) means “nurse”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it hùshi: hù with a 4th tone, then shi with a neutral 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, 护士 is written 護士. 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 护士 from the suggestions. Typing hushi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
护士 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.