HSK 6 · Objects

哨 shào “whistle” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 哨 means

  1. whistle
  2. sentry post
  3. sentry

How to say 哨

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale哨shào4th tone, falling

哨 in a sentence

  1. 裁判吹哨两次，向大家宣布已经终场。

    Cáipàn chuīshào liǎng cì, xiàng dàjiā xuānbù yǐjīng zhōngchǎng.

    The referee blew the whistle twice to tell everyone it was full time.

    Sentence #3579522 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你会吹口哨吗？

    Nǐ huì chuī kǒushào ma?

    Can you whistle?

    Sentence #10260714 from Tatoeba

  3. 他边走边吹口哨。

    Tā biān zǒu biān chuī kǒushào.

    He whistled as he walked.

    Sentence #832975 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 哨 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 哨 (shào) with each of its parts in a different colour
哨shàoa whistle
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 肖to resemble · xiàoSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 肖 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with shào.

How to write 哨

哨 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 哨

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FAQs

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