IDENTITY
出chūto exit; to come out
HSK 1Top 100
CORE MEANING
to exit; to come out
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to go outHSK1
- 2.to come out; to produceHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 凵receptacle radical (kǎn)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱屮凵
- sprout
- the pit it grows out of
USAGE
Common words
出去chūqùto go out
出来chūláito come out
出发chūfāto set off
Graded examples
我们明天出发。Wǒmen míngtiān chūfā.HSK2
We set off tomorrow.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A sprout (屮) pushing out of a pit (凵) — to come out.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #100
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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