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帅
shuài
帅 (shuài) means "handsome; smart". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.
What 帅 means
- bound formcommander-in-chief
- bound formto lead; to command
- handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant
- colloquialcool!; sweet!
- (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
Other readings
Example sentences
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他很帅。He is very handsome.
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我比你帅。I am more handsome than you.
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汤姆真帅。Tom is really handsome.
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他相当帅。He's rather handsome.
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他既高又帅。Tā jì gāo yòu shuài.He is tall and handsome.
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汤姆非常帅。Tom is very handsome.
Words starting with 帅
- 帅哥shuài gēhandsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address)
- 帅气shuài qihandsome; smart; dashing
- 帅呆了shuài dāi leawesome; brilliant; magnificent
Words containing 帅
- 元帅yuán shuài(military) marshal; commander-in-chief
- 主帅zhǔ shuài(military) commander-in-chief; (sports) team manager; coach
- 统帅tǒng shuàicommand; commander-in-chief
- 大帅dà shuài(old) commanding general; commander-in-chief; (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general…
- 挂帅guà shuàito take command; to be in command; (fig.) to take precedence; to be paramount…
- 将帅jiàng shuàicommander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess
- 大元帅dà yuán shuàigeneralissimo
- 奶帅nǎi shuài(slang) (of a young man) sweet and boyish in appearance; having soft, feminine features
- 换帅huàn shuàito replace the person in charge; (sports) to replace the head coach
- 高富帅gāo fù shuài"Mr Perfect" (i.e. tall, rich and handsome) (Internet slang)
- 分数挂帅fēn shù guà shuàipreoccupied with school grades; overemphasis on test scores
- 好兵帅克Hǎo bīng Shuài kèThe Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek…
- 舍车保帅shě jū bǎo shuàirook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess)…
- 金钱挂帅jīn qián guà shuàicaring only about money and wealth
- 赵公元帅Zhào gōng yuán shuàiMarshal Zhao, aka Zhao Gongming or Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk…
Characters that look like 帅
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 件jiànitem; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
- 师shīteacher; master; expert
- 曲qǔtune; song
- 仲zhòngsecond month of a season; middle; intermediate
- 驰chíto run fast; to speed; to gallop
- 弛chíto unstring a bow; to slacken; to relax
Sounds the same
Read shuài, tone for tone, but written differently.
Where 帅 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of Appearance & physical state (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 shuài correctly.
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