in English

suī conjunction HSK 6
although / even though

Stroke order

Le caractère 虽 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 虽 Show the animation
Le caractère 雖 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 雖, the traditional character: 虽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他虽年轻,但十分英明。

    Though young, he is wise.

  • 他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者,但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。

    He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.

  • 他虽然很累,但是也继续工作。

    Even though he was tired, he went on with his work.

  • 他虽然穷,但生活却过得很快乐。

    Even though he was poor, he was happy.

  • 他虽然穷,却很幸福。

    Even though he's poor, he's happy.

  • 我不想放弃我的想法,虽然一些想法有点极端。

    I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.

  • 我的剑虽然是钝的,但应付你的话是绰绰有余的。

    My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.

  • 虽然他对我反复解释这首诗的意思,我还是不懂。

    Even though he explained to me over and over again the meaning of this poem, I still don't get it.

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