HSK 5 · Money

税 shuì “taxes” in Chinese

Traditional 稅

What 税 means

  1. taxes
  2. duties

How to say 税

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale税shuì4th tone, falling

税 in a sentence

  1. 这个价格含了税。

    Zhè ge jiàgé hán le shuì.

    This price includes tax.

    Sentence #404455 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他想要减少进口品的税。

    Tā xiǎngyào jiǎnshǎo jìnkǒu pǐn de shuì.

    He wanted to cut the tax on imports.

    Sentence #8690265 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我同意你对于税的意见。

    Wǒ tóngyì nǐ duìyú shuì de yìjiàn.

    I agree with your views on tax.

    Sentence #887890 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 税 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 税 (shuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
税shuìtaxes
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 兑cash · duì

How to write 税

税 12 strokes

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

Words related to 税

More words: Money & Economy

人民币rénmínbì · Renminbi (RMB)商品shāngpǐn · commodity商务shāngwù · business市场shìchǎng · marketplace损失sǔnshī · loss讨价还价tǎojiàhuánjià · to bargain投入tóurù · to put in投资tóuzī · investment

FAQs

税 (shuì) means “taxes” or “duties”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shuì: shuì 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, 税 is written 稅. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 税 from the suggestions. Typing shui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
税 is an HSK 5 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.