邮
Tap the pinyin to hear it
post (office); mail
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 邑 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 郵
- Common rank
- #1,174
- Unicode
- U+90AE
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
post · Heisig RSH #2807
sprout + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 邮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 南京邮电大学 | Nanjing Post and Communications University | |
| 中国邮政 | China Post (Chinese postal service) | |
| 高邮市 | Gaoyou, a county-level city in Yangzhou City 揚州市|扬州市[Yang2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 万国邮联 | Universal Postal Union (UPU) | |
| 电子邮件 | email; CL:封[feng1],份[fen4] | |
| 邮政区码 | PRC postcode, e.g. 361000 for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian | |
| 万国邮政联盟 | Universal Postal Union | |
| 电子邮箱 | email inbox | |
| 邮政式拼音 | Chinese postal romanization, developed in the early 1900s, used until the 1980s | |
| 回邮信封 | self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) | |
| 航空邮件 | airmail | |
| 邮务士 | mailman (Tw) | |
| 邮区 | postal district | |
| 邮市 | philatelic market | |
| 邮花 | (dialect) (postage) stamp | |
| 邮电 | post and telecommunications | |
| 电邮 | email; abbr. for 電子郵件|电子邮件[dian4 zi3 you2 jian4] | |
| 高邮 | see 高郵市|高邮市[Gao1 you2 Shi4] | |
| 平邮 | ordinary mail (not express or registered) | |
| 邮车 | mail van; mail coach |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 由 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 由 sound part | cause, reason; from | |
| 油 | oil, fat, grease, lard; oil paints | |
| 抽 | to draw out, to pull out; to sprout | |
| 轴 | axle, pivot, shaft; axis | |
| 袖 | sleeve | |
| 宙 | space, time, space-time | |
| 鼬 | weasel, mustela itatis | |
| 铀 | uranium | |
| 釉 | enamel, glaze | |
| 岫 | mountain peak; cave, cavern | |
| 柚 | grapefruit, pomelo | |
| 蚰 | millipede | |
| 妯 | sister-in law | |
| 舳 | the stern of a ship |