斯
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(phonetic); this
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 斤 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 斯
- Common rank
- #17
- Unicode
- U+65AF
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 斯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马尔斯 | Mars (Roman God of War) | |
| 海斯 | (name) Hayes | |
| 安地斯 | the Andes mountains | |
| 马斯克 | Elon Musk (1971–), entrepreneur, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX | |
| 高斯 | Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician | |
| 高斯 | gauss, unit of magnetic induction | |
| 特克斯县 | Tekes, a county in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 … | |
| 斯事体大 | see 茲事體大|兹事体大[zi1 shi4 ti3 da4] | |
| 马德拉斯 | Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4], capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India | |
| 特斯拉 | Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian inventor and engineer; Tesla, an American electric vehic… | |
| 特斯拉 | tesla (unit) | |
| 斯文 | refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle | |
| 法西斯 | fascist (loanword) | |
| 特克斯 | see 特克斯縣|特克斯县[Te4 ke4 si1 Xian4] | |
| 特克斯 | (textiles) (loanword) tex, a unit for the linear mass density of a fiber | |
| 拉巴斯 | La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia | |
| 阿斯马拉 | Asmara, capital of Eritrea | |
| 巴斯特尔 | Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
| 白罗斯 | Belarus | |
| 阿拉斯加大学 | University of Alaska |
Sound family
These characters use 斯 as their sound component — compare how they read.