HSK 5 · Sport

游览 yóulǎn “to go sightseeing” in Chinese

Traditional 遊覽

What 游览 means

  1. to go sightseeing
  2. to tour
  3. to visit

Measure word 次 cì · 一次游览 yí cì yóulǎn

How to say 游览

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale游yóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale览lǎn3rd tone, dipping

游览 in a sentence

  1. 我们游览了所有主要城市。

    Wǒmen yóulǎn le suǒyǒu zhǔyào chéngshì.

    We toured all the major cities.

    Sentence #5900380 from Tatoeba

  2. 我的爱好是游览古老的庙宇。

    Wǒ de àihào shì yóulǎn gǔlǎo de miàoyǔ.

    My hobby is visiting old temples.

    Sentence #2386313 from Tatoeba

  3. 我已经游览过澳大利亚了。

    Wǒ yǐjīng yóulǎn guo Àodàlìyà le.

    I’ve already toured Australia.

    Sentence #8631837 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 游览 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 游 (yóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
游yóuto swim
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 斿to swim · yóu

Memory aidWater 氵 gives the meaning: to swim, and from there to travel around.

The character 览 (lǎn) drawn as one shape
览lǎnto look at

览 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 游览

游 12 strokes · 览 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 游览

Words with 游

游yóu · to swim旅游lǚyóu · to travel游泳yóuyǒng · to swim游戏yóuxì · game游客yóukè · tourist导游dǎoyóu · tour guide上游shàngyóu · upper reaches (of a river)

Words with 览

浏览liúlǎn · to skim over展览zhǎnlǎn · to put on display博览会bólǎnhuì · exhibition

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FAQs

游览 (yóulǎn) means “to go sightseeing” or “to tour”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yóulǎn: yóu with a 2nd tone, then lǎn with a 3rd 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, 游览 is written 遊覽. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 次 (cì). For example, one to go sightseeing is 一次游览 (yí cì yóulǎn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youlan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 游览 from the suggestions. Typing youlan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
游览 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.