HSK 6 · Body

膝盖 xīgài “knee” in Chinese

Traditional 膝蓋

What 膝盖 means

  1. knee

How to say 膝盖

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale膝xī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale盖gài4th tone, falling

膝盖 in a sentence

  1. 我的膝盖疼。

    Wǒ de xīgài téng.

    My knee hurts.

    Sentence #10368432 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 只跑了一点点，膝盖就开始发抖。

    Zhǐ pǎo le yìdiǎndiǎn, xīgài jiù kāishǐ fādǒu.

    I only ran a little way and my knees started shaking.

    Sentence #2857857 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他从腰部到膝盖都湿了。

    Tā cóng yāobù dào xīgài dōu shī le.

    He got wet from the waist down to the knees.

    Sentence #786143 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 膝盖 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 膝 (xī) with each of its parts in a different colour
膝xīknee
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 桼the varnish treeSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 桼 () hints at the sound. Compare it with xī.

The character 盖 (gài) with each of its parts in a different colour
盖gàilid
  • 羊sheep · yáng
  • 皿dish · mǐn

How to write 膝盖

膝 15 strokes · 盖 11 strokes

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

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

Words related to 膝盖

Words with 盖

盖gài · lid覆盖fùgài · to cover掩盖yǎngài · to cover up盖章gàizhāng · to stamp (with a seal)

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FAQs

膝盖 (xīgài) means “knee”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xīgài: xī with a 1st tone, then gài with a 4th 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, 膝盖 is written 膝蓋. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xigai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 膝盖 from the suggestions. Typing xigai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
膝盖 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.