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号

hào

HSK 2 Character Traditional 號

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

Other readings

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

• háoto wail; to howl

Example sentences

• 空号。
  Number unobtainable.
• 今天几号？
  What's today's date?
• 寄挂号吗？
  By registered letter?
• 今天三号。
  Today is the 3rd.
• 是十月三号。
  It's October the third.
• 今天是几号？
  What's the date today?

Words starting with 号

• 号码hào mǎnumber
• 号召hào zhàoto call; to appeal
• 号称hào chēngto be known as; to be nicknamed; to be purportedly…
• 号令hào lìngan order (esp. army); bugle call expressing military order; verbal command
• 号角hào jiǎobugle horn
• 号子hào ziwork chant; prison cell; type
• 号召力hào zhào lìto have the power to rally supporters
• 号外hào wài(newspaper) extra; special number (of a periodical)
• 号叫háo jiàoto howl; to yell
• 号数hào shùnumber in a sequence; ordinal number; serial number
• 号手hào shǒutrumpeter; military bugler
• 号头hào tóunumber; serial number
• 号音hào yīnbugle call
• 号令如山hào lìng rú shānlit. order like a mountain; a military order is inviolable; strict discipline
• 号衣hào yījacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back…
• 号牌hào páilicense plate; number plate
• 号志hào zhìsignal; sign (traffic control etc)
• 号码牌hào mǎ páinumber plate; car license plate
• 号兵hào bīngbugler; trumpeter (military)
• 号丧háo sangto weep; to howl as if at a funeral
• 号旗hào qísignaling flag
• 号哭háo kūto bawl; to wail; to cry
• 号脉hào màito feel sb's pulse
• 号炮hào pàocannon used for signaling; signaling shot

Words containing 号

• 信号xìn hàosignal
• 挂号guà hàoto register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail
• 符号fú hàosymbol; mark; sign
• 称号chēng hàoname; term of address; title
• 口号kǒu hàoslogan; catchphrase
• 编号biān hàoto number; to assign numbers; serial number
• 一号yī hàofirst day of the month; toilet; (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
• 型号xíng hàomodel (particular version of a manufactured article)…
• 外号wài hàonickname
• 绰号chuò hàonickname
• 代号dài hàocode name
• 账号zhàng hàoaccount number; account; username
• 记号jì haomark; symbol; notation
• 小号xiǎo hàotrumpet; small size (clothes etc); (colloquial) a number one; a piss
• 序号xù hàoordinal number; serial number; sequence number
• 问号wèn hàoquestion mark (punct.); unknown factor; unsolved problem
• 句号jù hàofull stop; period (punct.)
• 头号tóu hàofirst rate; top rank; number one
• 老字号lǎo zì hàoshop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
• 拨号bō hàoto dial a telephone number
• 旗号qí hàomilitary banner…
• 括号kuò hàoparentheses; brackets
• 名号míng hàoname; title; good reputation
• 大号dà hào(music) tuba; (of clothes, print etc) large size; large format; (polite) your (given) name

Characters that look like 号

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

• 专zhuānfor a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 乎hū(classical particle similar to 于; at; from
• 币bìmoney; coins; currency
• 夸kuāused in transliteration
• 兮xī(particle in old Chinese similar to 啊)

Sounds the same

Read hào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 耗to waste; to spend; to consume
• 浩grand; vast (water)
• 皓(bound form) bright; luminous; white…
• 灏vast (of water)
• 好to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
• 昊vast and limitless; the vast sky
• 镐bright; place name; stove
• 颢(literary) white and shining
• 恏to desire
• 澔grand; vast (of water)
• 皞bright; brilliant
• 淏(literary) (of water) limpid