Cool in Chinese (Mandarin): 酷 (kù)

酷
kù
cool
- Simplified
- 酷
- Traditional
- 酷
- Pinyin
- kù
- Typed as
- ku
Use it in a sentence
这双鞋很酷。
這雙鞋很酷。
These shoes are cool.
The characters in 酷
酷
Cool. 酉 (a wine jar) is on the left.
14 strokes
Fourth tone. 酷 means harsh, but its sound is like "cool", so it came to mean cool. Very cool is 好酷 (hǎo kù).
More examples with 酷
你的滑板好酷!
Nǐ de huábǎn hǎo kù!
Your skateboard is so cool!
他戴着很酷的眼镜。
他戴著很酷的眼鏡。
Tā dàizhe hěn kù de yǎnjìng.
He wears cool glasses.
How to write 酷 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
酷 14 strokes
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