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筷子

kuài zi

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 对、根、把、双

筷子 (kuài zi) means "chopsticks". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 筷子 means

1. chopsticks

The characters in 筷子

• 筷kuàichopstick
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 筷子怎幺用？
  How do I use chopsticks?
• 用筷子吃饭难吗？
  Yòng kuàizi chīfàn nán ma?
  Is eating with chopsticks difficult?
• 露西不会用筷子。
  Lucy cannot use chopsticks.
• 一双红筷子破断了。
  One pair of red chopsticks broke.
• 你会用筷子吃饭吗？
  Do you know how to eat with chopsticks?
• 我们用筷子，不用刀叉。
  Wǒmen yòng kuàizi, bù yòng dāochā.
  We use chopsticks in place of knives and forks.

Words starting with 筷子

• 筷子腿kuài zi tuǐ(colloquial) skinny legs
• 筷子芥kuài zi jièArabis, a genus of Brassica family including cress

Words containing 筷子

• 火筷子huǒ kuài zifire tongs; hair curling tongs
• 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niánglit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother…

Where 筷子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Kitchen, Utensils & Appliances (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 kuài zi correctly.
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