to cry, to weep

Animated Stroke Order 哭

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Stroke Order Diagrams 哭

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
tīng
dào
huài
xiāo
hòu
tòng
shī
shēng

He cried bitterly after hearing the bad news.

2
yīn
wèi
shī
chǒng
ér

She is crying because she lost her pet.

3
hái
zi
zài
shāng
diàn
nào
yào
mǎi
wán

The child is crying and making a fuss in the store to buy a toy.

4
le

She cried.

5
xiǎo
gǒu
diū
le
xiǎo
míng
shāng
xīn

The puppy was lost, and Xiaoming cried sadly.

6
tīng
dào
zhè
ge
hǎo
xiāo
dòng
lái

Upon hearing the good news, she cried out of excitement.

7
kàn
jiàn
xiǎo
gǒu
chuān穿
zhe
xiào

He saw the dog wearing clothes and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

8
zhǔn
bèi
le
hěn
jiǔ
de
jié
guǒ
wàng
le
shēng
zhēn
shì
ràng
rén
xiào

I prepared a gift for a long time, but he forgot his birthday, which was really both funny and frustrating.

9
běn
xiǎng
bāng
máng
què
shì
qíng
gǎo
gèng
zāo
zhè
zhǒng
hǎo
xīn
bàn
huài
shì
de
qíng
kuàng
zhēn
ràng
rén
xiào

He wanted to help but made things worse, and this kind of well-intentioned mistake is truly both amusing and exasperating.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes10
StructureTop-Bottom
Frequency#432
Zhuyinㄎㄨ
Components
UnicodeU+54ED
CangjieRYK
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality