HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Speaking

邮箱 yóuxiāng “email inbox” in Chinese

Traditional 郵箱

What 邮箱 means

  1. email inbox
  2. mailbox
  3. post box
  4. post office box
  5. email

How to say 邮箱

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale箱xiāng1st tone, high and level

邮箱 in a sentence

  1. 这是我的电子邮箱。

    Zhè shì wǒ de diànzǐ yóuxiāng.

    This is my email address.

    Sentence #1738004 from Tatoeba

  2. 你多久看一次邮箱？

    Nǐ duōjiǔ kàn yí cì yóuxiāng?

    How often do you check your inbox?

    Sentence #10040334 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 邮箱在哪里？

    Yóuxiāng zài nǎlǐ?

    Where’s the post box?

    Sentence #832957 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 邮箱 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 箱 (xiāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
箱xiāngbox
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 相mutual · xiāngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 相 (xiāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāng.

How to write 邮箱

邮 7 strokes · 箱 15 strokes

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

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

Words related to 邮箱

Words with 邮

邮件yóujiàn · mail电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email邮局yóujú · post office

Words with 箱

冰箱bīngxiāng · refrigerator箱子xiāngzi · box行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk

More words: Speaking & Communication

听说tīngshuō · to hear (it said that)怎么办zěnmebàn · what should I do?聊liáo · to chat邮件yóujiàn · mail外语wàiyǔ · foreign language聊天儿liáotiānr · to chat加油jiāyóu · to cheer on提出tíchū · to put forward

FAQs

邮箱 (yóuxiāng) means “email inbox” or “mailbox”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it yóuxiāng: yóu with a 2nd tone, then xiāng with a 1st 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, 邮箱 is written 郵箱. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youxiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 邮箱 from the suggestions. Typing youxiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
邮箱 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.