HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Speaking

邮件 yóujiàn “mail” in Chinese

Traditional 郵件

What 邮件 means

  1. mail
  2. post
  3. email

How to say 邮件

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale邮yóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale件jiàn4th tone, falling

邮件 in a sentence

  1. 我给你发了封邮件。

    Wǒ gěi nǐ fā le fēng yóujiàn.

    I sent you an email.

    Sentence #1870348 from Tatoeba

  2. 你收到了我发的邮件了吗？

    Nǐ shōudào le wǒ fā de yóujiàn le ma?

    Did you get the email I sent?

    Sentence #4844986 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 今天有给我的邮件吗？

    Jīntiān yǒu gěi wǒ de yóujiàn ma?

    Is there any mail for me today?

    Sentence #6199254 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 邮件 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 邮 (yóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
邮yóupost
  • 由cause · yóuSound part
  • 阝placeMeaning part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 由 (yóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with yóu.

Memory aidThe 阝 on the right stands for a town: post went from town to town. 由 (yóu) gives the sound.

The character 件 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
件jiànitem
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 牛cow · niú

Memory aidAn old explanation: a person 亻 dividing an ox 牛 into pieces: an item, one of many.

How to write 邮件

邮 7 strokes · 件 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 邮件

Words with 邮

邮箱yóuxiāng · email inbox电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email邮局yóujú · post office

Words with 件

件jiàn · measure word for clothes电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email条件tiáojiàn · condition文件wénjiàn · document证件zhèngjiàn · certificate软件ruǎnjiàn · (computer) software硬件yìngjiàn · hardware零件língjiàn · part案件ànjiàn · legal case稿件gǎojiàn · manuscript

More words: Speaking & Communication

听说tīngshuō · to hear (it said that)怎么办zěnmebàn · what should I do?聊liáo · to chat邮箱yóuxiāng · email inbox外语wàiyǔ · foreign language聊天儿liáotiānr · to chat加油jiāyóu · to cheer on祝zhù · to wish (someone well)

FAQs

邮件 (yóujiàn) means “mail” or “post”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it yóujiàn: yóu with a 2nd tone, then jiàn 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, 邮件 is written 郵件. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 邮件 from the suggestions. Typing youjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
邮件 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.