HSK 6 · Science

体积 tǐjī “volume” in Chinese

Traditional 體積

What 体积 means

  1. volume
  2. size
  3. volume (amount of space an object occupies)

How to say 体积

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale体tǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale积jī1st tone, high and level

体积 in a sentence

  1. 那只鸟的体积有半只老鹰那么大。

    Nà zhī niǎo de tǐjī yǒu bàn zhī lǎoyīng nàme dà.

    That bird was about half the size of a hawk.

    Sentence #604476 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 体积 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 体 (tǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
体tǐbody
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 本root · běn

Memory aidA person 亻 and a root 本: the body.

The character 积 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up
  • 禾grain · héMeaning part
  • 只only · zhǐSound part

禾 hints at the meaning (grain); 只 (zhǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jī.

How to write 体积

体 7 strokes · 积 10 strokes

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

Words related to 体积

Words with 体

身体shēntǐ · body体育tǐyù · physical training体育馆tǐyùguǎn · gymnasium体会tǐhuì · to know from experience体贴tǐtiē · considerate (of other people’s needs)体现tǐxiàn · to embody体验tǐyàn · to experience for oneself具体jùtǐ · specific集体jítǐ · collective (decision)媒体méitǐ · media

Words with 积

积累jīlěi · to accumulate积极jījí · active面积miànjī · area (of a floor or piece of land)堆积duījī · to pile up

More words: Science & Technology

太空tàikōng · outer space探测tàncè · to detect弹性tánxìng · elasticity天文tiānwén · astronomy提炼tíliàn · to refine统计tǒngjì · statistics椭圆tuǒyuán · oval微观wēiguān · microscopic

FAQs

体积 (tǐjī) means “volume” or “size”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tǐjī: tǐ with a 3rd tone, then jī with a 1st 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, 体积 is written 體積. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tiji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 体积 from the suggestions. Typing tiji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
体积 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.