刮风

刮风 guāfēng

To be windy

刮风 in a sentence HSK 3 繁體 颳風 guafeng

What 刮风 means

  1. To be windy

† Our own dictionary has no entry for 刮风, so these meanings are adapted from CC-CEDICT, published by MDBG and its contributors and based on CEDICT © 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Character by character

刮风 is written with 2 characters. Chinese words are usually easier to remember once you can see what each part contributes.

guā
Scrape (blows)
fēng
Wind (storm - custom)

How to write 刮风

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刮风 in a sentence

外面刮风了,把门关上吧。
Wàimiàn guāfēng le, bǎ mén guānshàng ba.
It's windy outside — let's close the door.
今天刮风,也很冷。
Jīntiān guāfēng, yě hěn lěng.
It's windy today, and cold as well.

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Questions about 刮风

What does 刮风 mean in English?

刮风 is pronounced guāfēng and means To be windy †.

How do you pronounce 刮风?

刮风 is guāfēng in pinyin — written guafeng without tone marks. Press the audio button on this page to hear it spoken by a native voice.

What are the characters in 刮风?

刮风 is written with 2 characters: 刮 (guā) Scrape (blows), 风 (fēng) Wind (storm - custom). Knowing the parts is usually how the whole word becomes memorable.

How is 刮风 written in traditional Chinese?

颳風. The simplified form 刮风 is used in mainland China and Singapore; 颳風 is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Both are pronounced guāfēng.

Is 刮风 an HSK word?

Yes — 刮风 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list. You can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

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