IDENTITY
狗gǒudog
HSK 1Top 700
CORE MEANING
dog
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.dogHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 犭animal radical (quǎn)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰犭句
- animal
- gives the sound gǒu (historical)
USAGE
Common words
小狗xiǎogǒupuppy
热狗règǒuhot dog
Graded examples
他每天遛狗。Tā měitiān liù gǒu.HSK3
He walks his dog every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 够
LEARNING
Memory aid
The animal (犭) that curls up (句) — the dog.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #700
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
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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