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腿

tuǐ

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character Measure word 条

腿 (tuǐ) means "leg". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 腿 means

1. leg

Other readings

腿 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• tuǐhip bone; old variant of {腿|tuǐ}

Example sentences

• 吃些火腿。
  Chī xiē huǒtuǐ.
  Have some ham.
• 我有蜜大腿。
  Wǒ yǒu mìdàtuǐ.
  I have honey thighs.
• 他的腿很长。
  He has long legs.
• 狼靠腿吃饭。
  A wolf is fed by its legs.
• 把你的腿抬起来
  Bǎ nǐ de tuǐ táiqǐ lái
  Raise your leg.
• 我摔断了右腿。
  I broke my right leg.

Words starting with 腿

• 腿部tuǐ bùleg
• 腿脚tuǐ jiǎolegs and feet; ability to walk; strides
• 腿了tuǐ le(Taiwan; net slang) too late, someone posted that already…
• 腿号tuǐ hàolegband (on a bird)
• 腿玩年tuǐ wán nián(slang) stunning legs; sexy legs
• 腿腕tuǐ wànankle
• 腿肚子tuǐ dù zicalf (back of the leg below the knee)
• 腿后腱tuǐ hòu jiànhamstring muscle
• 腿号箍tuǐ hào gūsee 腿号

Words containing 腿

• 大腿dà tuǐthigh
• 双腿shuāng tuǐlegs; both legs; two legs
• 小腿xiǎo tuǐlower leg (from knee to ankle); shank
• 火腿huǒ tuǐham
• 鸡腿jī tuǐchicken leg; drumstick
• 裤腿kù tuǐtrouser leg
• 拔腿bá tuǐto break into a run
• 盘腿pán tuǐto sit cross-legged; to sit in the lotus position
• 撒腿sā tuǐto take to one's heels; to scram
• 火腿肠huǒ tuǐ chángham sausage
• 跑腿pǎo tuǐto run errands
• 二郎腿èr láng tuǐone leg over the other (legs crossed)
• 瘸腿qué tuǐcrippled; lame; a cripple
• 踢腿tī tuǐto kick; to do a kick (in dancing, martial arts etc)
• 前腿qián tuǐforelegs
• 飞毛腿fēi máo tuǐswift feet; fleet-footed runner
• 假腿jiǎ tuǐfalse leg
• 断腿duàn tuǐbroken leg
• 方腿fāng tuǐprocessed ham product
• 狗腿gǒu tuǐlackey; henchman
• 飞腿fēi tuǐkick
• 大长腿dà cháng tuǐ(colloquial) (a person's) long legs
• 抱大腿bào dà tuǐ(colloquial) to cling to sb influential or famous
• 拖后腿tuō hòu tuǐto impede; to obstruct; to hold back

Characters built on 退

These share the phonetic component 退 (tuì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 褪tuìto take off (clothes); to shed (feathers); (of color) to fade…
• 煺tuìto pluck poultry or depilate pigs using hot water

Characters that look like 腿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 飓jùused in 飓风
• 腕wànwrist; (squid, starfish etc) arm
• 榻tàcouch
• 棍gùnstick; rod; truncheon; scoundrel; villain
• 腮sāicheek
• 膈gé(anatomy) diaphragm

Where 腿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Physical Description (HSK 3), HSK 3 Characters · Set 28 (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.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.