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贺

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to congratulate

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HSK 3.0
Level 5
Old HSK
Level 4
Strokes
9
Radical
貝 +5
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
賀
Common rank
#1,487
Unicode
U+8D3A

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 贺 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

To add 加 to someone else's fortune 贝

Components 加 贝

How to remember it

congratulate · Heisig RSH #750

加 add + shells

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 贺

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
生日贺卡 shēng rì hè kǎ birthday card
贺拉斯 Hè lā sī Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet
贺州市 Hè zhōu Shì Hezhou, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 x…
贺兰县 Hè lán Xiàn Helan, a county in Yinchuan City 銀川市|银川市[Yin2 chuan1 Shi4], Ningxia
贺兰山 Hè lán Shān Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
可喜可贺 kě xǐ kě hè worthy of celebration; gratifying; Congratulations!
贺年卡 hè nián kǎ New Year greeting card
贺兰山脉 Hè lán Shān mài Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
贺兰山红尾鸲 Hè lán Shān hóng wěi qú (bird species of China) Przevalski's redstart; Ala Shan redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus…
贺年片 hè nián piàn New Year's card; CL:張|张[zhang1]
贺尔蒙 hè ěr méng (loanword) hormone
燕雀相贺 yàn què xiàng hè lit. sparrow and swallow's congratulation (idiom); fig. to congratulate sb on completion o…
志贺氏菌病 zhì hè shì jūn bìng shigellosis; bacillary dysentery
贺县 Hè xiàn He county in Guangxi
贺普丁 Hè pǔ dīng Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定[La1 mi3 fu1 ding4]
贺电 hè diàn congratulatory telegram
道贺 dào hè to congratulate
贺龙 Hè Lóng He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the…
贺州 Hè zhōu see 賀州市|贺州市[He4 zhou1 Shi4]
贺年 hè nián see 賀歲|贺岁[he4 sui4]