HSK 5 · Food

香肠 xiāngcháng “sausage” in Chinese

Traditional 香腸

What 香肠 means

  1. sausage

Measure word 根 gēn · 一根香肠 yì gēn xiāngcháng

How to say 香肠

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale香xiāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale肠cháng2nd tone, rising

香肠 in a sentence

  1. 你要培根还是要香肠？

    Nǐ yào péigēn háishi yào xiāngcháng?

    Would you like bacon or sausages?

    Sentence #406715 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你见过做香肠吗？

    Nǐ jiànguo zuò xiāngcháng ma?

    Have you ever seen sausages being made?

    Sentence #10546751 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 香肠 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 香 (xiāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
香xiāngfragrant
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 日sun · rì
The character 肠 (cháng) with each of its parts in a different colour
肠chángintestines
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 昜bright · yángSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 昜 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cháng.

How to write 香肠

香 9 strokes · 肠 7 strokes

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

Words related to 香肠

Words with 香

香蕉xiāngjiāo · banana香xiāng · fragrant

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FAQs

香肠 (xiāngcháng) means “sausage”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xiāngcháng: xiāng with a 1st tone, then cháng with a 2nd 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, 香肠 is written 香腸. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 根 (gēn). For example, one sausage is 一根香肠 (yì gēn xiāngcháng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiangchang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 香肠 from the suggestions. Typing xiangchang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
香肠 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.