朋友 péngyǒu▶ teman

Stroke order

朋友 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 朋 — 8 strokes
• 友 — 4 strokes

Example sentences

• 我有很多朋友。Wǒ yǒu hěn duō péngyǒu.I have many friends.
• 我朋友在北京工作。Wǒ péngyǒu zài Běijīng gōngzuò.My friend works in Beijing.

Related words

• 友好ramah
• 友谊persahabatan

朋友 is pronounced péngyǒu and means “teman”. HSK 1 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 朋友 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.