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盒子

hé zi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

盒子 (hé zi) means "box". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 盒子 means

1. box; case
2. hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines

The characters in 盒子

• 盒hésmall box; case
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 盒子几乎是空的
  This box is almost empty.
• 盒子几乎是空的。
  The box is almost empty.
• 我能打开盒子吗?
  May I open the box?
• 盒子里有些空瓶。
  There are some empty bottles in the box.
• 盒子里有一些蛋。
  There are some eggs in the box.
• 盒子里有什么呢?
  What is inside the box?

Words containing 盒子

• 韭菜盒子jiǔ cài hé zichive pocket, savory pan-fried turnover stuffed with garlic chives and other ingredients…

Sounds the same

Read hé zi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 合子pasty (i.e. pastry stuffed with meat or vegetables)

Where 盒子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & classifiers (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hé zi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.