HSK 6 · Verbs

授予 shòuyǔ “to award” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 授予 means

  1. to award
  2. to confer

How to say 授予

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale授shòu4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale予yǔ3rd tone, dipping

授予 in a sentence

  1. 他曾经被授予金牌。

    Tā céngjīng bèi shòuyǔ jīnpái.

    He was once awarded a gold medal.

    Sentence #334280 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他们在画展上授予了她一等奖。

    Tāmen zài huàzhǎn shàng shòuyǔ le tā yīděngjiǎng.

    They awarded her first prize at the art exhibition.

    Sentence #332529 from Tatoeba

How 授予 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 授 (shòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
授shòuto confer; to give
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 受to receive · shòuSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 受 (shòu) hints at the sound. Compare it with shòu.

The character 予 (yǔ) drawn as one shape
予yǔto give

予 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 授予

授 11 strokes · 予 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 授予

Words with 授

教授jiàoshòu · professor传授chuánshòu · to teach

Words with 予

赋予fùyǔ · to give给予jǐyǔ · to give

More words: Common Verbs

施展shīzhǎn · to make full use of收藏shōucáng · to collect守护shǒuhù · to guard收缩shōusuō · to shrink耍shuǎ · to play with率领shuàilǐng · to lead束缚shùfù · to restrict树立shùlì · to establish

FAQs

授予 (shòuyǔ) means “to award” or “to confer”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shòuyǔ: shòu with a 4th tone, then yǔ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 授予 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shouyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 授予 from the suggestions. Typing shouyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
授予 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.