IDENTITY
湖húlake
HSK 3Top 600
CORE MEANING
lake
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.lakeHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵胡
- water
- gives the sound hú
USAGE
Common words
湖水húshuǐlake water
西湖XīhúWest Lake
Graded examples
我们在湖边散步。Wǒmen zài hú biān sànbù.HSK3
We take a walk by the lake.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) in the ancient northern lands (胡) — a big lake.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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