钥 - Mandarin word #5358

钥

yào

Traditional: 钥

#5358 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

key (first half of "key")

Stroke order

钥

桌zhuō。

The key is on the table.

。

I left the key at home.

。

This is the room key.

桌zhuō。

I put the keys on the table.

。

He lost the key to the room.

钥 (yào) is a bound morpheme that pairs with 匙 (shi) to form 钥匙, the everyday word for key.

开

to open; to start, to turn on

们

plural suffix for pronouns and people nouns

钥匙

key (for lock)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 钥.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 108.