HSK 6 · Society

间谍 jiàndié “spy” in Chinese

Traditional 間諜

What 间谍 means

  1. spy

How to say 间谍

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale间jiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale谍dié2nd tone, rising

间谍 in a sentence

  1. 他相信我们中间有间谍。

    Tā xiāngxìn wǒmen zhōngjiān yǒu jiàndié.

    He believes there’s a spy among us.

    Sentence #1454465 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 人们怀疑他是间谍。

    Rénmen huáiyí tā shì jiàndié.

    People suspected that he was a spy.

    Sentence #1371220 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我突然想到他可能是个商业间谍。

    Wǒ tūrán xiǎngdào tā kěnéng shì ge shāngyè jiàndié.

    It suddenly occurred to me that he might be an industrial spy.

    Sentence #380162 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 间谍 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 间 (jiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
间jiàngap
  • 门gate · mén
  • 日sun · rì

Memory aidSunlight 日 coming through a gap in the gate 门: a gap, the space between, a room.

The character 谍 (dié) with each of its parts in a different colour
谍diéto spy
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 枼tableSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 枼 () hints at the sound. Compare it with dié.

How to write 间谍

间 7 strokes · 谍 11 strokes

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

Words related to 间谍

Words with 间

间jiān · (measure word for rooms)时间shíjiān · time房间fángjiān · room中间zhōngjiān · middle洗手间xǐshǒujiān · toilet之间zhījiān · between卫生间wèishēngjiān · bathroom期间qījiān · period of time空间kōngjiān · space间隔jiàngé · interval

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FAQs

间谍 (jiàndié) means “spy”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiàndié: jiàn with a 4th tone, then dié 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, 间谍 is written 間諜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiandie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 间谍 from the suggestions. Typing jiandie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
间谍 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.