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主意

zhǔ yi 3–5

plan; idea; decision; Beijing pr. [zhú yi]

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
主 · 意
Syllables
2
zhǔ yi
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,584

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 主zhǔ5 strokesHSK 2master, chief owner; host; lord
  • 意yì13 strokesHSK 2thought, idea, opinion; think

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

Example sentences

  • 好主意!

    Hǎo zhǔ yi

    Good idea!

  • 我有好主意。

    Wǒ yǒu hǎo zhǔ yi

    A good idea came into my mind.

  • 我没主意了。

    Wǒ méi zhǔ yi le

    I'm running out of ideas.

  • 这是个好主意。

    Zhè shì gè hǎo zhǔ yi

    It is a good idea.

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 主意. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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