HSK 4 · Places

邮局 yóujú “post office” in Chinese

Traditional 郵局

What 邮局 means

  1. post office

Measure word 家 jiā or 个 gè · 一家邮局 yì jiā yóujú

How to say 邮局

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale局jú2nd tone, rising

邮局 in a sentence

  1. 他在邮局给朋友寄包裹。

    Tā zài yóujú gěi péngyou jì bāoguǒ.

    He’s at the post office sending a package to a friend.

    Sentence #2200452 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我觉得邮局还没开门。

    Wǒ juéde yóujú hái méi kāimén.

    I don’t think the post office is open yet.

    Sentence #13749874 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这里以前有邮局。

    Zhèlǐ yǐqián yǒu yóujú.

    There used to be a post office here.

    Sentence #9410045 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 邮局 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 局 (jú) with each of its parts in a different colour
局júnarrow
  • 尺part of the character
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 邮局

邮 7 strokes · 局 7 strokes

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

Words related to 邮局

Words with 邮

邮件yóujiàn · mail邮箱yóuxiāng · email inbox电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email

Words with 局

布局bùjú · layout格局géjú · structure结局jiéjú · ending局部júbù · part局面júmiàn · situation局势júshì · situation (esp. political or military)局限júxiàn · to limit全局quánjú · overall situation公安局gōng'ānjú · public security bureau

More words: Places & Directions

中国Zhōngguó · China北京Běijīng · Beijing卫生间wèishēngjiān · bathroom亚洲Yàzhōu · Asia长城Chángchéng · the Great Wall长江Cháng Jiāng · Yangtze River周围zhōuwéi · environs座位zuòwèi · seat

FAQs

邮局 (yóujú) means “post office”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yóujú: yóu with a 2nd tone, then jú 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, 邮局 is written 郵局. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā) or 个 (gè). For example, one post office is 一家邮局 (yì jiā yóujú).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 邮局 from the suggestions. Typing youju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
邮局 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.