HSK 6 · Body

嗅觉 xiùjué “sense of smell” in Chinese

Traditional 嗅覺

What 嗅觉 means

  1. sense of smell

How to say 嗅觉

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale嗅xiù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale觉jué2nd tone, rising

嗅觉 in a sentence

  1. 狗的嗅觉灵敏。

    Gǒu de xiùjué língmǐn.

    Dogs have a keen sense of smell.

    Sentence #333227 from Tatoeba

How 嗅觉 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 嗅 (xiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
嗅xiùto smell
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 臭to reek · chòu
The character 觉 (jué) with each of its parts in a different colour
觉juéto feel
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎoSound part
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 见to see · jiànMeaning part

见 hints at the meaning (to see); ⺍ (xiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with jué.

How to write 嗅觉

嗅 13 strokes · 觉 9 strokes

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

Words related to 嗅觉

Words with 觉

睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep觉得juéde · to feel感觉gǎnjué · feeling自觉zìjué · conscious知觉zhījué · perception发觉fājué · to discover觉悟juéwù · awareness觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken

More words: People, Body & Health

细菌xìjūn · bacteria新陈代谢xīnchéndàixiè · metabolism性命xìngmìng · life (of a person or animal)胸膛xiōngtáng · chest血压xuèyā · blood pressure眼色yǎnsè · meaningful look眼神yǎnshén · look in one’s eyes遗传yíchuán · genetic

FAQs

嗅觉 (xiùjué) means “sense of smell”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiùjué: xiù with a 4th tone, then jué 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, 嗅觉 is written 嗅覺. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiujue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 嗅觉 from the suggestions. Typing xiujue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
嗅觉 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.