帅
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(bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 巾 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 帥
- Common rank
- #2,472
- Unicode
- U+5E05
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Formation & memory
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How 帅 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An army officer carrying a weapon 刂 and a flag 巾
How to remember it
commander · Heisig RSH #411
saber + 巾 towel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 帅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 好兵帅克 | The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-192… | |
| 分数挂帅 | preoccupied with school grades; overemphasis on test scores | |
| 舍车保帅 | rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by bla… | |
| 大元帅 | generalissimo | |
| 金钱挂帅 | caring only about money and wealth | |
| 高富帅 | "Mr Perfect" (i.e. tall, rich and handsome) (Internet slang) | |
| 赵公元帅 | Marshal Zhao, aka Zhao Gongming or Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk traditi… | |
| 大帅 | (old) commanding general; commander-in-chief; (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general … | |
| 帅气 | handsome; smart; dashing; elegant | |
| 主帅 | (military) commander-in-chief; (sports) team manager; coach | |
| 元帅 | (military) marshal; commander-in-chief | |
| 统帅 | command; commander-in-chief | |
| 帅呆了 | awesome; brilliant; magnificent | |
| 帅哥 | handsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address) | |
| 换帅 | to replace the person in charge; (sports) to replace the head coach | |
| 奶帅 | (slang) (of a young man) sweet and boyish in appearance; having soft, feminine features | |
| 将帅 | commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess | |
| 挂帅 | to take command; to be in command; (fig.) to take precedence; to be paramount; to be given… |