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游戏

yóu xì 2–4

game; to play

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
游 · 戏
Syllables
2
yóu xì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 603

Part of speech: n,v

Character by character

  • 游yóu12 strokesHSK 2to swim; float, drift; wander, roam
  • 戏xì6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 戲theatrical play, show

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

Example sentences

  • 我打游戏。

    Wǒ dǎ yóu xì

    I play video games.

  • 这是个文字游戏。

    Zhè shì gè wén zì yóu xì

    This is a pun.

  • 你想不想一起打游戏？

    Nǐ xiǎng bù xiǎng yī qǐ dǎ yóu xì

    Do you want to play video games together?

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 游戏. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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