HSK 2 · Common Verbs

觉得 juéde “to feel” in Chinese

Traditional 覺得

What 觉得 means

  1. to feel, think
  2. to think that …
  3. to feel that …
  4. to feel (uncomfortable etc)

How to say 觉得

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale觉jué2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own得deneutral tone, light and short

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

觉得 in a sentence

  1. 我觉得今天会很热。

    Wǒ juéde jīntiān huì hěn rè.

    I think it will be hot today.

    Sentence #510680 from Tatoeba

  2. 你觉得明天会有个好天气吗？

    Nǐ juéde míngtiān huì yǒu ge hǎo tiānqì ma?

    Do you think we’ll have good weather tomorrow?

    Sentence #9972415 from Tatoeba

  3. 我觉得我不太喜欢这游戏。

    Wǒ juéde wǒ bú tài xǐhuan zhè yóuxì.

    I don’t think I like this game very much.

    Sentence #5842625 from Tatoeba

How 觉得 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 觉 (jué) with each of its parts in a different colour
觉juéto feel
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎoSound part
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 见to see · jiànMeaning part

见 hints at the meaning (to see); ⺍ (xiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with jué.

The character 得 (de) with each of its parts in a different colour
得destructural particle: used after a verb
  • 彳step · chì
  • 旦dawn · dàn
  • 寸inch · cùn

Memory aidA hand 寸 picking up a shell, once used as money, while out on the road 彳: to get.

How to write 觉得

觉 9 strokes · 得 11 strokes

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

Words related to 觉得

Words with 觉

睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep感觉gǎnjué · feeling自觉zìjué · conscious嗅觉xiùjué · sense of smell知觉zhījué · perception发觉fājué · to discover觉悟juéwù · awareness觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken

Words with 得

得de · particle linking a verb to how it is done (e.g. 跑得快记得jìde · remember得到dédào · to get得分défēn · to score (points)懂得dǒngde · to understand认得rènde · to recognise获得huòdé · to obtain得意déyì · proud of oneself值得zhíde · to be worth来得及láidejí · to have enough time

More words: Common Verbs

游泳yóuyǒng · to swim完wán · to finish准备zhǔnbèi · to prepare知道zhīdao · to know (a fact)希望xīwàng · to hope告诉gàosu · to tell问wèn · to ask开始kāishǐ · to begin

FAQs

觉得 (juéde) means “to feel, think” or “to think that …”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it juéde: jué with a 2nd tone, then de 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, 觉得 is written 覺得. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type juede with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 觉得 from the suggestions. Typing juede into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
觉得 is an HSK 2 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.