HSK 6 · Verbs

疏忽 shūhu “to neglect” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 疏忽 means

  1. to neglect
  2. to overlook
  3. carelessness
  4. negligence

How to say 疏忽

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale疏shū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own忽huneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

疏忽 in a sentence

  1. 他责备了我的疏忽。

    Tā zébèi le wǒ de shūhu.

    He reproached me for my carelessness.

    Sentence #842131 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 疏忽 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 疏 (shū) with each of its parts in a different colour
疏shūto dredge
  • 疋roll of cloth · pǐ
  • 㐬pennant
The character 忽 (hū) with each of its parts in a different colour
忽hūto neglectlight in 疏忽
  • 勿must not · wùSound part
  • 心heart · xīnMeaning part

心 hints at the meaning (heart); 勿 (wù) hints at the sound. Compare it with hu.

How to write 疏忽

疏 12 strokes · 忽 8 strokes

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

Words related to 疏忽

Words with 疏

生疏shēngshū · unfamiliar疏远shūyuǎn · to drift apart

Words with 忽

忽视hūshì · to neglect忽然hūrán · suddenly忽略hūlüè · to overlook

More words: Thinking & Talking

擅长shàncháng · to be good at设想shèxiǎng · to imagine识别shíbié · to identify示意shìyì · to signal思索sīsuǒ · to ponder算数suànshù · to count (be valid)索取suǒqǔ · to ask for探索tànsuǒ · to explore

FAQs

疏忽 (shūhu) means “to neglect” or “to overlook”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shūhu: shū with a 1st tone, then hu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 疏忽 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shuhu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 疏忽 from the suggestions. Typing shuhu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
疏忽 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.