HSK 5 · Nature

尾巴 wěiba “tail” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 尾巴 means

  1. tail

How to say 尾巴

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale尾wěi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own巴baneutral tone, light and short

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

尾巴 in a sentence

  1. 兔子有长耳朵和短尾巴。

    Tùzi yǒu cháng ěrduo hé duǎn wěiba.

    Rabbits have long ears and short tails.

    Sentence #503217 from Tatoeba

  2. 狗跟着主人，摇着尾巴。

    Gǒu gēn zhe zhǔrén, yáo zhe wěiba.

    The dog followed its owner, wagging its tail.

    Sentence #9518684 from Tatoeba

  3. 孩子抓住了猫的尾巴。

    Háizi zhuāzhù le māo de wěiba.

    The child grabbed the cat’s tail.

    Sentence #472915 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 尾巴 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 尾 (wěi) with each of its parts in a different colour
尾wěitail
  • 尸corpse · shī
  • 毛fur · máo
The character 巴 (ba) drawn as one shape
巴bato long for

巴 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 尾巴

尾 7 strokes · 巴 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 尾巴

Words with 巴

巴结bājie · to fawn on巴不得bābudé · to be eager to

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FAQs

尾巴 (wěiba) means “tail”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wěiba: wěi with a 3rd tone, then ba with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 尾巴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weiba with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 尾巴 from the suggestions. Typing weiba into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
尾巴 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.