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游泳

yóu yǒng 2–3

swimming; to swim

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
游 · 泳
Syllables
2
yóu yǒng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,695

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 游yóu12 strokesHSK 2to swim; float, drift; wander, roam
  • 泳yǒng8 strokesHSK 2dive; swim

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我一点也不会游泳。

    Wǒ yī diǎn yě bù huì yóu yǒng

    I cannot swim at all.

  • 您不能在这里游泳。

    Nín bù néng zài zhè lǐ yóu yǒng

    You cannot swim here.

  • 我看到他们在游泳。

    Wǒ kàn dào tā men zài yóu yǒng

    I saw them swimming.

  • 我们能在这里游泳吗？

    Wǒ men néng zài zhè lǐ yóu yǒng ma

    May we swim here?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 游泳. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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