HSK 5 · Science

信号 xìnhào “signal” in Chinese

Traditional 信號

What 信号 means

  1. signal

How to say 信号

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale信xìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale号hào4th tone, falling

信号 in a sentence

  1. 我手机没信号。

    Wǒ shǒujī méi xìnhào.

    My phone has no signal.

    Sentence #11371523 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你说什么？我听不见，这里信号太差了。

    Nǐ shuō shénme? Wǒ tīng bu jiàn, zhèlǐ xìnhào tài chà le.

    What did you say? I can’t hear you – the signal here is terrible.

    Sentence #1766270 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他给了我们开始的信号。

    Tā gěi le wǒmen kāishǐ de xìnhào.

    He gave us the signal to start.

    Sentence #887709 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 信号 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 信 (xìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
信xìnletter
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 言speech · yán

Memory aidA person 亻 and their word 言: to trust, and a letter.

The character 号 (hào) with each of its parts in a different colour
号hàoto call out; to command
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 丂part of the characterSound part

How to write 信号

信 9 strokes · 号 5 strokes

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

Words related to 信号

Words with 信

信xìn · letter相信xiāngxìn · to believe信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself短信duǎnxìn · text message信息xìnxī · information信封xìnfēng · envelope信心xìnxīn · confidence信任xìnrèn · to trust确信quèxìn · to be convinced

Words with 号

号hào · number号码hàomǎ · number挂号guàhào · to register (at a hospital)称号chēnghào · title号召hàozhào · to call on符号fúhào · symbol

More words: Science & Technology

搜索sōusuǒ · to search (online)网络wǎngluò · network物质wùzhì · matter下载xiàzài · to download学术xuéshù · academic硬件yìngjiàn · hardware预报yùbào · forecast注册zhùcè · to register

FAQs

信号 (xìnhào) means “signal”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xìnhào: xìn with a 4th tone, then hào 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, 信号 is written 信號. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xinhao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 信号 from the suggestions. Typing xinhao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
信号 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.