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呼吸

hūxī

to breathe

HSK 4 · Topic “Health and treatment”
A person breathing out
Memory picture

Characters in this word

呼 hū

Strokes
8
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 乎 interrogative or exclamatory final particle
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 呼

吸 xī

Strokes
6
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 及 to extend
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 慢慢呼吸。 Màn màn hū xī. Breathe slowly.
  • 呼吸很难。 Hū xī hěn nán. Breathing is hard.
  • 他在呼吸。 Tā zài hū xī. He is breathing.

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