HSK 6 · Adjectives

竖 shù “vertical” in Chinese

Traditional 豎

What 竖 means

  1. vertical
  2. to set upright
  3. vertical stroke
  4. to erect
  5. vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

How to say 竖

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale竖shù4th tone, falling

竖 in a sentence

  1. 我竖起了耳朵听。

    Wǒ shùqǐ le ěrduo tīng.

    I pricked up my ears and listened.

    Sentence #881759 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 竖起你的耳朵。

    Shùqǐ nǐ de ěrduo.

    Prick up your ears.

    Sentence #10608729 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 竖 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 竖 (shù) with each of its parts in a different colour
竖shùto erect
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 又again · yòu
  • 立stand · lì

How to write 竖

竖 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 竖

More words: Adjectives

慎重shènzhòng · cautious适宜shìyí · suitable十足shízú · complete首要shǒuyào · foremost爽快shuǎngkuài · frank书面shūmiàn · written斯文sīwen · refined肆无忌惮sìwújìdàn · unrestrained

FAQs

竖 (shù) means “vertical” or “to set upright”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shù: shù 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, 竖 is written 豎. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 竖 from the suggestions. Typing shu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
竖 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.