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咳嗽késouto cough; cough

Theme
Health
Level
HSK 4
Strokes
23
Characters
2

How 咳嗽 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

咳 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.
嗽 — 14 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Examples

他咳嗽了一个星期。

Tā késou le yí gè xīngqī.

He has been coughing for a week.

  • 他tāhe
  • 咳嗽késouto cough; cough
  • 了lecompleted action marker
  • 一yīone
  • 个gègeneral measure word
  • 星期xīngqīweek

咳嗽的时候要多喝水。

Késou de shíhou yào duō hē shuǐ.

When you have a cough you should drink more water.

  • 咳嗽késouto cough; cough
  • 的depossessive particle
  • 时候shíhoutime; moment
  • 要yàoto want; must
  • 多duōmany
  • 喝hēto drink
  • 水shuǐwater

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 感冒
  • 发烧
  • 咳血