告诉
gào sù 4–4
to press charges; to file a complaint
- Characters
- 2
- 告 · 诉
- Syllables
- 2
- gào sù
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 252
Part of speech: v
Character by character
- 告gào7 strokesHSK 1tell, announce, inform; accuse
- 诉sù7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 訴accuse; sue; inform; narrate
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他告诉她。
Tā gào su tā
He told her.
不要告诉她。
Bù yào gào su tā
Don't tell her.
不要告诉他。
Bù yào gào su tā
Don't tell him.
不要告诉我。
Bù yào gào su wǒ
Don't tell me.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 告诉. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 报告bào gàoHSK 3
to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture
- 广告guǎng gàoHSK 2
to advertise; a commercial; advertisement
- 警告jǐng gàoHSK 5
to warn; to admonish
- 告gàoHSK 7
to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue
- 起诉qǐ sùHSK 6
to sue; to bring a lawsuit against; to prosecute
- 诉讼sù sòngHSK 7
lawsuit
- 被告bèi gàoHSK 6
defendant
- 投诉tóu sùHSK 4
complaint; to complain; to register a complaint (esp. as a customer)
- 告别gào biéHSK 3
to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- 告知gào zhīHSK 7
to inform
- 原告yuán gàoHSK 6
complainant; plaintiff
- 公告gōng gàoHSK 5
post; announcement
- 上诉shàng sùHSK 7
to appeal (a judicial case); appeal
- 通告tōng gàoHSK 7
to announce; to give notice; announcement
- 预告yù gàoHSK 7
to forecast; to predict; advance notice
- 宣告xuān gàoHSK 7
to declare; to proclaim
- 倾诉qīng sùHSK 7
to say everything (that is on one's mind)
- 转告zhuǎn gàoHSK 4
to pass on; to communicate; to transmit
- 告诫gào jièHSK 7
to warn; to admonish
- 控告kòng gàoHSK 7
to accuse; to charge; to indict
- 诉说sù shuōHSK 7
to recount; to tell of; to relate; (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)
- 告辞gào cíHSK 7
to say goodbye; to take one's leave
- 告示gào shiHSK 7
announcement
- 劝告quàn gàoHSK 7
to advise; to urge; to exhort; exhortation; advice