HSK 6 · Body

器官 qìguān “organ (of the body)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 器官 means

  1. organ (of the body)
  2. (physiology) organ
  3. apparatus

How to say 器官

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale器qì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale官guān1st tone, high and level

器官 in a sentence

  1. 舌头和上颚都是味觉器官。

    Shétou hé shàng'è dōu shì wèijué qìguān.

    The tongue and the palate are both organs of taste.

    Sentence #8795349 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 器官 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 器 (qì) with each of its parts in a different colour
器qìdevice
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 犬dog · quǎn
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 官 (guān) with each of its parts in a different colour
官guāngovernment official
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 㠯according to

How to write 器官

器 16 strokes · 官 8 strokes

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

Words related to 器官

Words with 器

机器jīqì · machine乐器yuèqì · musical instrument充电器chōngdiànqì · battery charger仪器yíqì · instrument器材qìcái · equipment容器róngqì · container武器wǔqì · weapon

Words with 官

官guān · government official官方guānfāng · official打官司dǎguānsi · to go to court

More words: People, Body & Health

呕吐ǒutù · to vomit疲惫píbèi · exhausted屁股pìgu · bottom疲倦píjuàn · tired气色qìsè · complexion拳头quántou · fist瘸qué · lame上瘾shàngyǐn · to be addicted

FAQs

器官 (qìguān) means “organ (of the body)” or “(physiology) organ”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qìguān: qì with a 4th tone, then guān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 器官 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qiguan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 器官 from the suggestions. Typing qiguan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
器官 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.