修理 xiūlǐ▶ reparar

Stroke order

修理 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 修 — 9 strokes
• 理 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. to repair
2. to fix
3. to prune
4. to trim
5. (coll.) to sort sb out
6. to fix sb

Related words

• 整理Arreglo
• 理发Corte de pelo
• 理想ideal
• 理解Entender, comprender
• 管理Administración
• 修改modificar

修理 is pronounced xiūlǐ and means “reparar”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 修理 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.