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Stroke order
首都 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.
- 首 — 9 strokes
- 都 — 10 strokes
Example sentences
- 北京是中国的首都。Běijīng shì Zhōngguó de shǒudū.Beijing is the capital of China.
- 这个国家的首都很大。Zhège guójiā de shǒudū hěn dà.This country's capital is very large.
Related words
首都 is pronounced shǒudū and means “capital”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 首都 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.