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够

gòu

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character Traditional 夠

够 (gòu) means "enough (sufficient)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 够 means

1. enough (sufficient)
2. enough (too much)
3. colloquial(before adj.) really
4. colloquialto reach by stretching out

Example sentences

• 够了。
  That's enough.
• 够了！
  Enough!
• 钱够吗？
  Was there enough money?
• 不够吗？
  Is that not enough?
• 你不够快。
  You're not fast enough.
• 我受够了。
  I have had it.

Words starting with 够

• 够呛gòu qiàngunbearable; terrible; enough
• 够用gòu yòngadequate; sufficient; enough
• 够不着gòu bu zháoto be unable to reach
• 够意思gòu yì siwonderful; great; delightful
• 够本gòu běnto break even; to get one's money's worth
• 够格gòu géable to pass muster; qualified; apt
• 够受的gòu shòu deto be quite an ordeal; to be hard to bear
• 够得上gòu de shàngto be good enough to be regarded as; to meet the standard expected of
• 够得着gòu de zháoto reach (with one's hand etc); (fig.) to attain (an objective)
• 够朋友gòu péng you(colloquial) to be a true friend
• 够味gòu wèilit. just the right flavor; just right; just the thing
• 够戗gòu qiàngvariant of 够呛

Words containing 够

• 能够néng gòuto be capable of; to be able to; can
• 不够bù gòunot enough; insufficient; inadequate
• 足够zú gòuenough; sufficient
• 受够shòu gòuto have had enough of; to be fed up with; to have had one's fill of
• 有够yǒu gòuvery; extremely
• 管够guǎn gòu(colloquial) as much as one wants; in plentiful supply
• 巴不能够bā bù néng gòuavid; eager for; longing for

Characters built on 句

These share the phonetic component 句 (jù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 狗gǒudog
• 苟gǒu(literary) if indeed; (bound form) careless; negligent; (bound form) temporarily
• 枸gōubent; crooked
• 佝gōuused in 佝偻; Taiwan pr. kòu
• 笱gǒubasket for trapping fish
• 岣gǒuname of a hill in Hunan

Characters that look like 够

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

• 链liànchain; cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)…
• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 桂guìcassia; laurel
• 蛙wāfrog
• 梧wúSterculia platanifolia
• 铛chēngfrying pan; griddle

Sounds the same

Read gòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 购to buy; to purchase
• 构to construct; to form; to make up
• 垢dirt; disgrace
• 勾used in 勾当
• 媾to marry; to copulate
• 诟disgrace; to revile
• 彀to draw a bow to the full; the range of a bow and arrow; old variant of 够
• 遘meet unexpectedly
• 姤copulate; good
• 冓inner rooms of palace; ten billions
• 觏complete; meet unexpectedly; see
• 雊crowing of pheasant

Where 够 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Degree & scope words (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gòu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.