HSK 3 · Verbs

照顾 zhàogu “take care of” in Chinese

Traditional 照顧

What 照顾 means

  1. take care of
  2. look after
  3. to show consideration
  4. to attend to

How to say 照顾

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale照zhào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own顾guneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

照顾 in a sentence

  1. 照顾好你自己。

    Zhàogu hǎo nǐ zìjǐ.

    Take good care of yourself.

    Sentence #1772682 from Tatoeba

  2. 他在家里照顾孩子。

    Tā zài jiālǐ zhàogu háizi.

    He’s at home looking after the kids.

    Sentence #382418 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 谢谢你一直以来对我的照顾。

    Xièxie nǐ yìzhí yǐlái duì wǒ de zhàogu.

    Thank you for always looking after me.

    Sentence #2431764 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 照顾 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 照 (zhào) with each of its parts in a different colour
照zhàoto shine
  • 昭bright · zhāoSound part
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part

灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 昭 (zhāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhào.

Memory aidFire 灬 under 昭 (zhāo) “bright”: to shine, to light up, and also a photo.

The character 顾 (gù) with each of its parts in a different colour
顾gùto look afterlight in 照顾
  • 厄adversity · èSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 厄 (è) hints at the sound. Compare it with gu.

How to write 照顾

照 13 strokes · 顾 10 strokes

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

Words related to 照顾

Words with 照

护照hùzhào · passport照片zhàopiàn · picture拍照pāizhào · to take a photo照相zhàoxiàng · to take a photo照相机zhàoxiàngjī · camera照zhào · to shine按照ànzhào · according to执照zhízhào · licence照常zhàocháng · as usual参照cānzhào · to refer to

Words with 顾

顾客gùkè · customer回顾huígù · to look back顾虑gùlǜ · worry顾问gùwèn · adviser不顾búgù · regardless of不屑一顾búxièyígù · to disdain后顾之忧hòugùzhīyōu · worries back home统筹兼顾tǒngchóujiāngù · to plan as a whole and consider all aspects

More words: Common Verbs

洗澡xǐzǎo · bathe用yòng · to use遇到yùdào · to meet站zhàn · stand干gàn · to do安排ānpái · to arrange保护bǎohù · to protect报名bàomíng · to sign up

FAQs

照顾 (zhàogu) means “take care of” or “look after”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it zhàogu: zhào with a 4th tone, then gu with a neutral 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, 照顾 is written 照顧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhaogu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 照顾 from the suggestions. Typing zhaogu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
照顾 is an HSK 3 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.