HSK 6 · Clothing

首饰 shǒushì “jewellery” in Chinese

Traditional 首飾

What 首饰 means

  1. jewellery
  2. head ornament

How to say 首饰

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale首shǒu3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饰shì4th tone, falling

首饰 in a sentence

  1. 先生小姐，你们买点什么首饰？

    Xiānsheng xiǎojiě, nǐmen mǎi diǎn shénme shǒushì?

    What sort of jewellery are you looking for, sir, madam?

    Sentence #420192 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 玛丽通常不戴首饰。

    Mǎlì tōngcháng bú dài shǒushì.

    Mary doesn’t usually wear jewellery.

    Sentence #5715140 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 首饰 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 首 (shǒu) drawn as one shape
首shǒuhead

首 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 饰 (shì) drawn as one shape
饰shìdecoration

饰 is a single shape of 8 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 首饰

首 9 strokes · 饰 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 首饰

Words with 首

首都shǒudū · capital (city)首先shǒuxiān · first (of all)首shǒu · measure word for songs and poems首要shǒuyào · foremost元首yuánshǒu · head of state

Words with 饰

装饰zhuāngshì · to decorate掩饰yǎnshì · to cover up

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纽扣儿niǔkòur · button旗袍qípáo · qipao容貌róngmào · looks神态shéntài · expression秃tū · bald外表wàibiǎo · appearance衣裳yīshang · clothes熨yùn · to iron

FAQs

首饰 (shǒushì) means “jewellery” or “head ornament”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shǒushì: shǒu with a 3rd tone, then shì with a 4th 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, 首饰 is written 首飾. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shoushi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 首饰 from the suggestions. Typing shoushi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
首饰 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.