HSK 6 · Verbs

警告 jǐnggào “to warn” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 警告 means

  1. to warn
  2. warning
  3. to admonish

How to say 警告

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale警jǐng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale告gào4th tone, falling

警告 in a sentence

  1. 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 · translation adapted

  2. 老师警告我不要上学迟到。

    Lǎoshī jǐnggào wǒ búyào shàngxué chídào.

    The teacher warned me not to be late for school.

    Sentence #13573435 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 我警告过你别来这里。

    Wǒ jǐnggào guo nǐ bié lái zhèlǐ.

    I warned you not to come here.

    Sentence #6075558 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 警告 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 警 (jǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
警jǐngto alert
  • 敬to respect · jìngSound part
  • 言speech · yánMeaning part

言 hints at the meaning (speech); 敬 (jìng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jǐng.

The character 告 (gào) with each of its parts in a different colour
告gàoto say; to tell
  • 牛cow · niú
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 警告

警 19 strokes · 告 7 strokes

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

Words related to 警告

Words with 警

警察jǐngchá · police警惕jǐngtì · to be vigilant报警bàojǐng · to call the police

Words with 告

告诉gàosu · to tell广告guǎnggào · advertisement告别gàobié · to say goodbye转告zhuǎngào · to pass on报告bàogào · to inform告辞gàocí · to take leave告诫gàojiè · to warn被告bèigào · defendant原告yuángào · plaintiff布告bùgào · notice

More words: Thinking & Talking

借鉴jièjiàn · to learn from揭露jiēlù · to expose激发jīfā · to arouse激励jīlì · to encourage讥笑jīxiào · to sneer at记载jìzǎi · to record聚精会神jùjīnghuìshén · to concentrate fully看待kàndài · to regard

FAQs

警告 (jǐnggào) means “to warn” or “warning”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jǐnggào: jǐng with a 3rd tone, then gào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 警告 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jinggao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 警告 from the suggestions. Typing jinggao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
警告 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.