HSK 5 · Function Words

套 tào “set” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 套 means

  1. set
  2. suite
  3. measure word for sets
  4. to cover
  5. to encase
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • sheath
  • to overlap
  • to interleave

How to say 套

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale套tào4th tone, falling

套 in a sentence

  1. 你觉得这套房子怎么样？

    Nǐ juéde zhè tào fángzi zěnmeyàng?

    What do you think of this flat?

    Sentence #1654889 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我买了一套新的音响。

    Wǒ mǎi le yí tào xīn de yīnxiǎng.

    I bought a new sound system.

    Sentence #14007946 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她为他做了一套新衣服。

    Tā wèi tā zuò le yí tào xīn yīfu.

    She made him a new suit.

    Sentence #852176 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 套 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 套 (tào) with each of its parts in a different colour
套tàoto cover
  • 大big · dà
  • 镸long form of 長 · cháng

How to write 套

套 10 strokes

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

Words related to 套

Words with 套

手套shǒutào · glove配套pèitào · to form a complete set圈套quāntào · trap

More words: Function Words & Grammar

事先shìxiān · in advance随时suíshí · at any time随手suíshǒu · as you go所suǒ · (grammar particle introducing a passive or relative clause)通常tōngcháng · regular团tuán · group万一wànyī · just in case唯一wéiyī · only

FAQs

套 (tào) means “set” or “suite”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tào: tào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 套 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 套 from the suggestions. Typing tao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
套 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.