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号

hào

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character Traditional 號

号 (hào) means "number; day of the month; size". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 号 means

  1. literaryto call out; to command
  2. bound formbugle; trumpet
  3. bound formsignal; bugle call (e.g. {起床号|qǐ chuáng hào})
  4. bound formmark; sign
  5. to mark; to label; to assign a number
  6. bound formname; appellation (e.g. {国号|guó hào}, {年号|nián hào}, {辽宁号|Liáo níng Hào})
  7. (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237{号房间|èr sān qī hào fáng jiān} "Room 237")
  8. day of the month (e.g. {七号|qī hào} "the 7th")
  9. bound formsize; type; category (e.g. {五号电池|wǔ hào diàn chí})
  10. (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in {号脉|hào mài})
  11. classifier for numbered people or items

How 号 is used in grammar

号 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 1, measure words (时量词).

Other readings

号 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

Example sentences

Words starting with 号

Words containing 号

Characters that look like 号

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

Sounds the same

Read hào, tone for tone, but written differently.

Where 号 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Numbers and Measure Words (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 13 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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Looking a word up is not learning it. GraphChinese puts all of HSK 1–6 into one dependency graph, teaches each piece only once its prerequisites are solid, and schedules reviews to land just before you would forget.

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