HSK 5 · Money

账户 zhànghù “bank account” in Chinese

Traditional 賬戶

What 账户 means

  1. bank account
  2. online account
  3. (bank, computer etc) account

How to say 账户

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale账zhàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale户hù4th tone, falling

账户 in a sentence

  1. 我的银行账户里没留下钱。

    Wǒ de yínháng zhànghù lǐ méi liúxià qián.

    There’s no money left in my bank account.

    Sentence #5780600 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我认为你应该在这里开个账户。

    Wǒ rènwéi nǐ yīnggāi zài zhèlǐ kāi ge zhànghù.

    I think you should open an account here.

    Sentence #5551197 from Tatoeba

  3. 你的账户空了。

    Nǐ de zhànghù kōng le.

    Your account is empty.

    Sentence #5868149 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 账户 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 账 (zhàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
账zhàngaccount
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part
  • 长long · chángSound part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 长 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàng.

The character 户 (hù) with each of its parts in a different colour
户hùa household
  • 丶dot · zhǔ
  • 尸corpse · shī

How to write 账户

账 8 strokes · 户 4 strokes

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

Words related to 账户

Words with 账

结账jiézhàng · to pay the bill

Words with 户

窗户chuānghu · window客户kèhù · client用户yònghù · user家喻户晓jiāyùhùxiǎo · known to everyone

More words: Money & Economy

消费xiāofèi · to consume押金yājīn · deposit优惠yōuhuì · preferential涨zhǎng · to rise (of prices挣zhèng · to earn (money)支票zhīpiào · cheque资金zījīn · funds资源zīyuán · resources

FAQs

账户 (zhànghù) means “bank account” or “online account”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhànghù: zhàng with a 4th tone, then hù 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, 账户 is written 賬戶. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhanghu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 账户 from the suggestions. Typing zhanghu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
账户 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.