却 què▶ nhưng

Stroke order

却 is written in 7 strokes.

• 却

Senses

1. but
2. yet
3. however
4. while
5. to go back
6. to decline
7. to retreat
8. nevertheless
9. even though

Example sentences

• 他很累，却还在工作。Tā hěn lèi, què hái zài gōngzuò.He is tired, but he is still working.
• 我叫了他，他却没有回答。Wǒ jiào le tā, tā què méiyǒu huídá.I called him, but he did not answer.

Related words

• 冷却làm mát

却 is pronounced què and means “nhưng”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 却 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.