HSK 6 · Food

腥 xīng “fishy (smell or taste)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 腥 means

  1. fishy (smell or taste)
  2. raw fish or meat
  3. fishy (smell)

How to say 腥

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale腥xīng1st tone, high and level

腥 in a sentence

  1. 这条鱼有点儿腥。

    Zhè tiáo yú yǒudiǎnr xīng.

    This fish tastes a bit fishy.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 做鱼的时候放点儿姜，可以去腥。

    Zuò yú de shíhou fàng diǎnr jiāng, kěyǐ qù xīng.

    Add a little ginger when you cook fish to get rid of the fishy taste.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 腥 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 腥 (xīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
腥xīngfishy
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 星star · xīngSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 星 (xīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xīng.

How to write 腥

腥 13 strokes

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

Words related to 腥

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FAQs

腥 (xīng) means “fishy (smell or taste)” or “raw fish or meat”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xīng: xīng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 腥 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 腥 from the suggestions. Typing xing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
腥 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.