Chinese Word: 受 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

受HSK 4

Pinyin: shòu
English Definition: to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker)
Antonyms: 授

Total strokes: 8; Radical: 又

Ideographic: Something 冖 passed from one hand 爫 to another 又

Character Formation:

⿳ Above to middle and below
- 爫 [ zhǎo ] claws, nails, talons
- 冖 [ mì ] cover
- 又 [ yòu ] and, also, again, in addition

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Example Words:

受到 [ shòu dào ]: to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)

接受 [ jiē shòu ]: to accept; to receive

难受 [ nán shòu ]: to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear

受不了 [ shòu bù liǎo ]: unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand

享受 [ xiǎng shòu ]: to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure; Classifiers: 种

More: 受* | *受 | *受*

Example Sentences

zhè wèi
这位
xīn
新
jiào shī
教师
bù hěn
不很
shòu
受
xué sheng
学生
men
们
huān yíng
欢迎

。

The new teacher doesn't go down well with the pupils.
zhàn
站
zài
在
yì páng
一旁
wú suǒ shì shì
无所事事

，
zhè
这
shǐ
使
tā
她
hěn
很
bù hǎo
不好
shòu
受

。

It eats in her to stand idly by.
zài
在
jiù zhōng guó
旧中国

，
bǎi fēn zhī
百分之
bā shí
八十
de
的
ér tóng
儿童
shòu
受
bú dào
不到
zhèng shì
正式
jiào yù
教育

。

In old China,eighty per cent of the children received no formal education.
nǐ de
你的
xíng dòng
行动
bì xū
必须
shòu
受
nǐ
你
shì fēi
是非
xīn
心
de
的
zhǐ dǎo
指导

。

You must be guided by your sense of right and just.
zài
在
nà li
那里
wǒ men
我们
shòu
受
le
了
jǐ
几
xīng qī
星期
de
的
jí zhōng
集中
xùn liàn
训练

。

There we received several weeks of intensive training.

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