Every time I go to a Japanese restaurant, I take the chopsticks home.
Sentence #427636 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 筷子 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.
筷kuàichopstick
⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
快speedy · kuàiSound part
⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 快 (kuài) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuài.
子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子 “chair”
了clear · le
一one · yī
Memory aidA baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped up.
How to write 筷子
筷 13 strokes · 子 3 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 筷子 (kuàizi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
筷子 (kuàizi) means “chopsticks”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it kuàizi: kuài with a 4th tone, then zi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 筷子 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 对 (duì) or 根 (gēn). For example, one chopsticks is 一对筷子 (yí duì kuàizi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuaizi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 筷子 from the suggestions. Typing kuaizi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
筷子 is an HSK 3 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.
筷kuài4th tone, falling
子zineutral tone, light and short
