Soap in Chinese (Mandarin): 肥皂 (féizào)
肥皂
féizào
soap
- Simplified
- 肥皂
- Traditional
- 肥皂
- Pinyin
- féizào
- Typed as
- feizao
Use it in a sentence
用肥皂洗手。
Wash your hands with soap.
The characters in 肥皂
肥
Fat. 月 (body) is on the left.
8 strokes
皂
Soap.
7 strokes
Soap was once made from animal fat, which may be why it is 肥皂. Bubbles are 泡泡 (pàopao).
More examples with 肥皂
肥皂有很多泡泡。
Féizào yǒu hěn duō pàopao.
Soap makes lots of bubbles.
肥皂很滑。
Féizào hěn huá.
The soap is slippery.
How to write 肥皂 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
肥 8 strokes
皂 7 strokes
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