HSK 4 · Society

艺术 yìshù “art” in Chinese

Traditional 藝術

What 艺术 means

  1. art

How to say 艺术

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale艺yì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale术shù4th tone, falling

艺术 in a sentence

  1. 你了解艺术吗？

    Nǐ liǎojiě yìshù ma?

    Do you know anything about art?

    Sentence #13889022 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我对现代艺术不感兴趣。

    Wǒ duì xiàndài yìshù bù gǎn xìngqù.

    Modern art doesn’t interest me.

    Sentence #10188069 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 艺术博物馆在这附近吗？

    Yìshù bówùguǎn zài zhè fùjìn ma?

    Is the art museum near here?

    Sentence #5672775 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 艺术 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 艺 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
艺yìskill
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 乙second (cyclical) · yǐSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 乙 (yǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with yì.

The character 术 (shù) with each of its parts in a different colour
术shùmethod
  • 木tree · mù
  • 丶dot · zhǔ

How to write 艺术

艺 4 strokes · 术 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 艺术

Words with 艺

手艺shǒuyì · craftsmanship文艺wényì · literature and the arts工艺品gōngyìpǐn · handicraft

Words with 术

技术jìshù · technology手术shǒushù · (surgical) operation武术wǔshù · martial arts学术xuéshù · academic美术měishù · art魔术móshù · magic战术zhànshù · tactics

More words: School, Work & Culture

爱好àihào · hobby班bān · team办法bànfǎ · method笔记本bǐjìběn · notebook聚会jùhuì · party举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting民族mínzú · nationality社会shèhuì · society

FAQs

艺术 (yìshù) means “art”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yìshù: yì with a 4th tone, then shù 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, 艺术 is written 藝術. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yishu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 艺术 from the suggestions. Typing yishu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
艺术 is an HSK 4 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.