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筷子

kuài zi 4–5

chopsticks

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
筷 · 子
Syllables
2
kuài zi
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 10,486

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 筷kuài13 strokesHSK 2chopsticks
  • 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 筷子怎么用？

    Kuài zi zěn me yòng

    How do I use chopsticks?

  • 用筷子吃饭难吗？

    Yòng kuài zi chī fàn nán ma

    Is eating with chopsticks difficult?

  • 露西不会用筷子。

    Lù xī bù huì yòng kuài zi

    Lucy cannot use chopsticks.

  • 一双红筷子破断了。

    Yī shuāng hóng kuài zi pò duàn le

    One pair of red chopsticks broke.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 筷子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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