Sweet potato in Chinese (Mandarin): 红薯 (hóngshǔ)
红薯
hóngshǔ
sweet potato
- Simplified
- 红薯
- Pinyin
- hóngshǔ
- Typed as
- hongshu
In Taiwan, people say 地瓜 (dìguā) instead.
Use it in a sentence
红薯烤着吃很甜。
Sweet potato is sweet when it is roasted.
The characters in 红薯
红 / 紅
Red.
6 strokes
薯
Potato, yam. 艹 (grass) is on top.
16 strokes
红薯 is a "red yam". Roasted sweet potatoes, 烤红薯 (kǎo hóngshǔ), are a favorite street snack in winter.
More examples with 红薯
冬天我们吃烤红薯。
冬天我們吃烤紅薯。
Dōngtiān wǒmen chī kǎo hóngshǔ.
We eat roasted sweet potatoes in winter.
红薯很甜。
紅薯很甜。
Hóngshǔ hěn tián.
Sweet potatoes are sweet.
How to write 红薯 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
红 6 strokes
薯 16 strokes
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