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肚子

dù zi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 个

肚子 (dù zi) means "belly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 肚子 means

1. belly
2. abdomen
3. stomach

The characters in 肚子

• 肚dùbelly
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我拉肚子。
  Wǒ lādùzi.
  I have diarrhea.
• 我肚子疼。
  My stomach hurts.
• 他肚子疼。
  His stomach hurts.
• 我拉肚子了。
  Wǒ lādùzi le.
  I have diarrhea.
• 你肚子饿吗？
  Are you hungry?
• 我肚子饿极了。
  I am terribly hungry.

Words starting with 肚子

• 肚子痛dù zi tòngstomachache; bellyache

Words containing 肚子

• 一肚子yī dù zibellyful (of sth); full of (sth)
• 拉肚子lā dù zi(colloquial) to have diarrhea
• 大肚子dà dù zipregnant; potbelly; big eater
• 害肚子hài dù ziupset stomach; stomachache
• 腿肚子tuǐ dù zicalf (back of the leg below the knee)
• 饿肚子è dù zito go hungry; to starve
• 闹肚子nào dù zi(colloquial) to have diarrhea
• 将军肚子jiāng jūn dù zibeer belly (complimentary)
• 大肚子经济dà dù zi jīng jì"Pregnancy-oriented Economy", new market conditions brought about by a predicted baby…
• 把心放在肚子里bǎ xīn fàng zài dù zi lǐ(colloquial) to be completely at ease
• 打掉门牙，往肚子里咽dǎ diào mén yá , wǎng dù zi lǐ yànlit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom)…
• 羊肚子手巾yáng dù zi shǒu jīnsee 羊肚手巾
• 羊肚子毛巾yáng dù zi máo jīnsee 羊肚手巾
• 泻肚子xiè dù zisee 泻肚

Where 肚子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & body (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 dù zi correctly.
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