HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Things

鞋 xié “shoe” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 鞋 means

  1. shoe

Measure word 双 shuāng or 只 zhī · 一双鞋 yì shuāng xié

How to say 鞋

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale鞋xié2nd tone, rising

鞋 in a sentence

  1. 我的鞋比你的大。

    Wǒ de xié bǐ nǐ de dà.

    My shoes are bigger than yours.

    Sentence #857814 from Tatoeba

  2. 我有一双鞋。

    Wǒ yǒu yì shuāng xié.

    I have a pair of shoes.

    Sentence #819697 from Tatoeba

  3. 有人穿错了我的鞋。

    Yǒurén chuān cuò le wǒ de xié.

    Someone has put on my shoes by mistake.

    Sentence #335223 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 鞋 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 鞋 (xié) with each of its parts in a different colour
鞋xiéshoe
  • 革leather · géMeaning part
  • 圭jade tablet · guīSound part

革 hints at the meaning (leather); 圭 (guī) hints at the sound. Compare it with xié.

How to write 鞋

鞋 15 strokes

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

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

Words related to 鞋

Words with 鞋

皮鞋píxié · leather shoes

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FAQs

鞋 (xié) means “shoe”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it xié: xié with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 鞋 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 双 (shuāng) or 只 (zhī). For example, one shoe is 一双鞋 (yì shuāng xié).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 鞋 from the suggestions. Typing xie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
鞋 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.