HSK 6 · Adjectives

尖锐 jiānruì “sharp” in Chinese

Traditional 尖銳

What 尖锐 means

  1. sharp
  2. pointed
  3. intense
  4. penetrating
  5. acute (illness)

How to say 尖锐

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale尖jiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale锐ruì4th tone, falling

尖锐 in a sentence

  1. 突然间她开始用尖锐的声音大喊。

    Tūránjiān tā kāishǐ yòng jiānruì de shēngyīn dàhǎn.

    Suddenly she started shouting in a shrill voice.

    Sentence #830481 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 尖锐 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 尖 (jiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
尖jiānpointed; tapering; sharp
  • 小small · xiǎo
  • 大big · dà
The character 锐 (ruì) with each of its parts in a different colour
锐ruìacute
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 兑cash · duìSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 兑 (duì) hints at the sound. Compare it with ruì.

How to write 尖锐

尖 6 strokes · 锐 12 strokes

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

Words related to 尖锐

Words with 尖

尖端jiānduān · cutting-edge

Words with 锐

敏锐mǐnruì · sharp

More words: Adjectives

简陋jiǎnlòu · simple and crude艰难jiānnán · difficult健全jiànquán · sound坚韧jiānrèn · tough坚实jiānshí · solid简要jiǎnyào · brief坚硬jiānyìng · hard娇气jiāoqì · fragile

FAQs

尖锐 (jiānruì) means “sharp” or “pointed”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiānruì: jiān with a 1st tone, then ruì 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, 尖锐 is written 尖銳. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianrui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 尖锐 from the suggestions. Typing jianrui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
尖锐 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.