HSK 4 · Verbs

允许 yǔnxǔ “to permit” in Chinese

Said as yúnxǔ

Traditional 允許

What 允许 means

  1. to permit
  2. to allow

How to say 允许

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale允yǔn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale许xǔ3rd tone, dipping

Said as yúnxǔ. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

允许 in a sentence

  1. 请允许我说一下我的想法。

    Qǐng yǔnxǔ wǒ shuō yíxià wǒ de xiǎngfǎ.

    Allow me to say what I think.

    Sentence #13909958 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这里不允许抽烟。

    Zhèlǐ bù yǔnxǔ chōuyān.

    Smoking isn’t allowed here.

    Sentence #8673668 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 如果天气允许的话，我就去。

    Rúguǒ tiānqì yǔnxǔ dehuà, wǒ jiù qù.

    If the weather permits, I’ll go.

    Sentence #2028484 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 允许 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 允 (yǔn) with each of its parts in a different colour
允yǔnjust
  • 厶private · sī
  • 儿legs · ér
The character 许 (xǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
许xǔto allow
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 午part of the characterSound part

How to write 允许

允 4 strokes · 许 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 允许

Words with 许

许多xǔduō · many也许yěxǔ · perhaps或许huòxǔ · perhaps许可xǔkě · to permit

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FAQs

允许 (yǔnxǔ) means “to permit” or “to allow”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yǔnxǔ: yǔn with a 3rd tone, then xǔ with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like yúnxǔ. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. 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, 允许 is written 允許. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yunxu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 允许 from the suggestions. Typing yunxu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
允许 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.