HSK 4 · Adjectives

帅 shuài “handsome” in Chinese

Traditional 帥

What 帅 means

  1. handsome
  2. good-looking
  3. cool
  4. (bound form) commander-in-chief
  5. (bound form) to lead
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to command
  • graceful
  • dashing
  • elegant
  • (coll.) cool!
  • sweet!

How to say 帅

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale帅shuài4th tone, falling

帅 in a sentence

  1. 他既高又帅。

    Tā jì gāo yòu shuài.

    He is tall and handsome.

    Sentence #380549 from Tatoeba

  2. 你男朋友真帅！

    Nǐ nánpéngyou zhēn shuài!

    Your boyfriend is really handsome!

    Sentence #3537648 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 那位帅哥是我们的老师。

    Nà wèi shuàigē shì wǒmen de lǎoshī.

    That handsome guy is our teacher.

    Sentence #1891368 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 帅 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 帅 (shuài) with each of its parts in a different colour
帅shuàicommander-in-chief
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 巾napkin · jīn

How to write 帅

帅 5 strokes

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

Words related to 帅

More words: Adjectives

穷qióng · poor热闹rènao · bustling with noise and excitement深shēn · deep实际shíjì · actual顺利shùnlì · smoothly特点tèdiǎn · characteristic (feature)危险wēixiǎn · danger香xiāng · fragrant

FAQs

帅 (shuài) means “handsome” or “good-looking”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it shuài: shuài 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, 帅 is written 帥. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shuai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 帅 from the suggestions. Typing shuai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
帅 is an HSK 4 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.