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帽子

mào zi

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 顶

帽子 (mào zi) means "hat". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 帽子 means

1. hat
2. cap
3. (fig.) label
4. bad name

The characters in 帽子

• 帽màohat; cap
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 把帽子戴上。
  Bǎ màozi dàishang.
  Put on the hat.
• 他买了帽子。
  He bought a hat.
• 戴上你的帽子。
  Dàishang nǐ de màozi.
  Put your hat on.
• 她戴着黑帽子。
  She was wearing a black hat.
• 我的帽子丢了。
  I have lost my cap.
• 你帽子在哪儿？
  Where's your hat?

Words starting with 帽子

• 帽子叔叔mào zi shū shu(slang) police officer
• 帽子戏法mào zi xì fǎhat trick (when one player scores three goals)

Words containing 帽子

• 戴帽子dài mào zito wear a hat; (fig.) to stigmatize; to be branded as
• 扣帽子kòu mào zito tag sb with unfair label; power word
• 摘帽子zhāi mào zilit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation
• 绿帽子lǜ mào zigreen hat (figuratively, a symbol of being a cuckold)
• 高帽子gāo mào zitall conical paper hat worn as a public humiliation; dunce cap; (fig.) flattery
• 戴绿帽子dài lǜ mào zito have been cheated on by one's partner…
• 戴高帽子dài gāo mào zi(colloquial) to be the object of flattery; to be placed on a pedestal
• 铁帽子王tiě mào zi wángiron-cap prince in the Qing dynasty whose title can be passed on to subsequent…

Where 帽子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Clothing & Accessories (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mào zi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.