雄 (xióng): male, staminate, grand
雄 (xióng) is a Chinese character meaning “male.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 厷 (phonetic) and 隹 (semantic). It ranks #1053 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 雄 bird. Its radical form 隹 (short-tailed bird) appears in many related characters such as 难 (nán, difficult (to...)), 集 (jí, to gather), 雀 (què, (bound form) small bird).
Definitions
- male
- staminate
- grand
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 雄
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雄性noun | xióng xìng | male |
| 雄风noun | xióng fēng | vigor |
| 雌雄noun | cí xióng | male and female |
| 雄心noun | xióng xīn | great ambition |
| 雄鹰noun | xióng yīng | male eagle |
| 雄伟adjective | xióng wěi | grand |
| 雄狮 | xióng shī | male lion |
| 雄辩noun | xióng biàn | eloquent |
| 雄心勃勃phrase | xióng xīn bó bó | aggressive and grand (idiom) |
| 雄厚adjective | xióng hòu | substantial |
| 雄蜂noun | xióng fēng | drone (bee) |
| 雄鸡noun | xióng jī | rooster |
| 群雄noun | qún xióng | outstanding heroes |
| 雄壮adjective | xióng zhuàng | majestic |
| 无名英雄phrase | wú míng yīng xióng | unnamed hero |
雄 appears in 94 compound words: 40 as the first character, 31 as the last, and 29 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 雄 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (13)
Showing 12 of 13 idioms containing 雄.
Example Sentences
学习雄字需要反复练习，才能写得工整。
xué xí xióng zì xū yāo fǎn fù liàn xí , cái néng xiě dé gōng zhěng .
Mastering the character "雄" requires repeated practice to write it neatly.
战争传奇、奥运金牌、救难英雄、凶案受害者家属 美国总统国情咨文主角为...
zhàn zhēng chuán qí , ào yùn jīn pái , jiù nán yīng xióng , xiōng àn shòu hài zhě jiā shǔ měi guó zǒng tǒng guó qíng zī wén zhǔ jiǎo wéi . . .
War legends, Olympic gold medals, rescue heroes, families of murder victims The protagonists of the US President's State of the Union address are...
高雄大寮毒驾冲撞警车 拦腰撞断电杆男女就逮
gāo xióng dà 寮 dú jià chōng zhuàng jǐng chē lán yāo zhuàng duàn diàn gān nán nǚ jiù dǎi
Kaohsiung Daliao's drug driver crashed into a police car and stopped the waist and broke the power pole and arrested the man and woman
转弯碰撞 高雄公车去年21事故2死
zhuǎn wān pèng zhuàng gāo xióng gōng chē qù nián 2 1 shì gù 2 sǐ
Turning collision Kaohsiung bus 21 accidents and 2 deaths last year
汉神巨蛋稳居高雄百货王 百货商圈概念宅成市场焦点 品牌建...
hàn shén jù dàn wěn jū gāo xióng bǎi huò wáng bǎi huò shāng juān gài niàn zhái chéng shì chǎng jiāo diǎn pǐn pái jiàn . . .
Hanshin Dome is firmly in the king of Kaohsiung Department Stores, and the concept of department store business district has become the focus of the market.
高标准高质量推进雄安新区建设现代化城市丨雄安新区新..
gāo biāo zhǔn gāo zhì liàng tuī jìn xióng ān xīn qū jiàn shè xiàn dài huà chéng shì 丨 xióng ān xīn qū xīn . .
Promote the construction of Xiong'an New Area into a modern city with high standards and high quality丨Xiong'an New Area New:
泽伦斯基是战争英雄。
Zé lún sī jī shì zhànzhēng yīngxióng.
Zelensky is a war hero.
你看过《沙漠雄狮》吗？
Nǐ kàn guo 《 shāmò xióngshī 》 ma?
Have you seen the movie "Lion of The Desert"?
雄辩如银，沉默如金。
Xióngbiàn rú yín, chénmò rú jīn.
Eloquence is silver, silence is golden.
尽管受到暴君的迫害，英雄还顽强地斗争。
Jǐnguǎn shòudào bàojūn de pòhài, yīngxióng hái wánqiáng de dòuzhēng.
In spite of the tyrant’s persecution, the hero valiantly carried on the struggle.
Character Family
隹 Radical Family — Characters sharing the short-tailed bird radical
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