贵
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expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank; (prefix) (honorific) your
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 貝 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 貴
- Common rank
- #811
- Unicode
- U+8D35
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Formation & memory
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Words with 贵
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贵德县 | Guide, a county in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zh… | |
| 贵南县 | Guinan, a county in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 z… | |
| 贵定县 | Guiding, a county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 nan2 Bu… | |
| 贵阳市 | Guiyang, prefecture-level city and capital of Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3] | |
| 单身贵族 | fig. unmarried person; single person (especially one who is comfortable financially) | |
| 贵族化 | gentrification; aristocratic; upper-class | |
| 达官贵人 | (idiom) high officials and noble lords; the powerful and influential | |
| 贵格会 | Society of Friends; the Quakers | |
| 大富大贵 | very rich; millionaire | |
| 云贵高原 | Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, wes… | |
| 以和为贵 | harmony is to be prized | |
| 贵族社会 | aristocracy | |
| 难能可贵 | rare and precious; valuable; remarkable | |
| 不当家不知柴米贵 | a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom) | |
| 高贵鸡 | (Tw) (slang) snobbish, pretentious gay person | |
| 早生贵子 | give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to newlyweds) | |
| 贵人 | nobility; person of high rank | |
| 贵国 | your distinguished country | |
| 黑命贵 | Black Lives Matter (social movement) | |
| 贵公司 | your company |
Sound family
These characters use 贵 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贵 sound part | expensive, costly; valuable, precious | |
| 溃 | a flooding river; a military defeat; to break down, to disperse | |
| 匮 | to lack; lacking, deficient; exhausted; empty | |
| 聩 | deaf | |
| 篑 | a bamboo basket for carrying soil | |
| 蒉 | edible amaranth; straw basket | |
| 愦 | confused, muddle-headed; troubled | |
| 缋 | to sketch, to paint, to draw; multicolored |