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(huá xuě) - to ski in Mandarin

huáxuě

Traditional: 滑雪

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Translation

to ski

Stroke order

Stroke order for 滑

Stroke order for 雪

Examples

We like to go skiing in winter.

He skis very well.

This is my first time skiing.

You need to pay attention to safety when skiing.

There is a ski resort on the mountain.

滑雪 (huáxuě) means "to ski", a verb-object compound made from 滑 (huá, to slide, to glide) and 雪 (xuě, snow); put together, it is literally "to slide on snow".

Like many two-character sport verbs, it behaves as a single unit in most sentences but can still split to take a result or duration, as in 滑雪滑得很好 (huáxuě huá de hěn hǎo, "ski very well"), where 滑 (huá) repeats before the descriptive complement.

A related noun worth learning alongside it is 滑雪场 (huáxuěchǎng), "ski resort", built from the same 滑雪 (huáxuě) plus 场 (chǎng, a large open venue).

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This word is part of lesson 109.