IDENTITY
哭kūto cry
HSK 3Top 550
CORE MEANING
to cry
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to cryHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱吅犬
- two crying mouths
- dog (wailing)
USAGE
Common words
哭闹kūnàocrying and fussing
大哭dàkūto wail
Graded examples
别哭了，没事。Bié kū le, méi shì.HSK3
Don’t cry, it’s all right.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two mouths (吅) wailing over the dog (犬) — crying.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #550
- 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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