咳嗽 késou▶ batuk

Stroke order

咳嗽 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 咳 — 9 strokes
• 嗽 — 14 strokes

Example sentences

• 他感冒了，一直在咳嗽。Tā gǎnmào le, yìzhí zài késou.He caught a cold and has been coughing.
• 医生说咳嗽得厉害就要吃药。Yīshēng shuō késou de lìhai jiù yào chī yào.The doctor said that if the cough is bad you must take medicine.

Related words

• 科学sains
• 可怜Miskin

咳嗽 is pronounced késou and means “batuk”. HSK 4 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 咳嗽 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.