IDENTITY
邮yóumail; postal
HSK 3Top 700
CORE MEANING
mail; postal
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.mail; postHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 阝city radical (yì)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰由阝
- gives the sound yóu
- place; station
USAGE
Common words
邮局yóujúpost office
邮件yóujiànmail; email
邮箱yóuxiāngmailbox
Graded examples
我去邮局寄包裹。Wǒ qù yóujú jì bāoguǒ.HSK3
I go to the post office to mail a parcel.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 油
LEARNING
Memory aid
The relay station (阝) that lets (由) messages through — the post. (From 郵.)
- 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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