HSK 4 · Food

葡萄 pútao “grape” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 葡萄 means

  1. grape

How to say 葡萄

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale葡pú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own萄taoneutral tone, light and short

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

葡萄 in a sentence

  1. 我虽然喜欢吃葡萄，但是我吃不了那么多。

    Wǒ suīrán xǐhuan chī pútao, dànshì wǒ chī bu liǎo nàme duō.

    Although I like grapes, I can’t eat that many.

    Sentence #8936297 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我吃两颗葡萄，剩下的留给你。

    Wǒ chī liǎng kē pútao, shèngxià de liúgěi nǐ.

    I’ll eat two grapes and leave the rest for you.

    Sentence #10983907 from Tatoeba

  3. 那些葡萄看起来很甜，但其实是酸的。

    Nàxiē pútao kànqǐlai hěn tián, dàn qíshí shì suān de.

    Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they’re sour.

    Sentence #510838 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 葡萄 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 葡 (pú) with each of its parts in a different colour
葡pú
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 匍to crawl · púSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 匍 (pú) hints at the sound. Compare it with pú.

The character 萄 (táo) with each of its parts in a different colour
萄táolight in 葡萄
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 匋pottery · táoSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 匋 (táo) hints at the sound. Compare it with tao.

How to write 葡萄

葡 12 strokes · 萄 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 葡萄

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FAQs

葡萄 (pútao) means “grape”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it pútao: pú with a 2nd tone, then tao with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 葡萄 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type putao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 葡萄 from the suggestions. Typing putao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
葡萄 is an HSK 4 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.