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照顾

zhào gu 4–5

to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
照 · 顾
Syllables
2
zhào gu
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,631

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 照zhào13 strokesHSK 2shine, illumine, reflect
  • 顾gù10 strokesHSK 2 traditional 顧look back; look at; look after

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

Example sentences

  • 照顾好他。

    Zhào gu hǎo tā

    Look after them.

  • 我会照顾你。

    Wǒ huì zhào gu nǐ

    I'll take care of you.

  • 没有人照顾她。

    Méi yǒu rén zhào gu tā

    There's no one to look after her.

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

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