止咳 meaning in English

zhǐ ké

to suppress coughing

HSK 7-913 strokes

Meaning of 止咳

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

zhǐké
  1. to suppress coughing

止咳 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

你nǐ有yǒu止zhǐ咳ké药yào吗ma?
Do you have any cough medicine?

Stroke order for each character

Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.

止 zhǐ · to stop · 4 strokes

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4

咳 ké · cough · 9 strokes

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
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  9. 9

Related words

Words that share a character with 止咳.

停止tíngzhǐto stop; to halt; to cease
防止fángzhǐto prevent; to guard against
阻止zǔzhǐto prevent; to block
禁止jìnzhǐto prohibit; to forbid
不止bùzhǐincessantly; without end
为止wéizhǐuntil; (used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到
终止zhōngzhǐto stop; to terminate
截止jiézhǐto end; to close; (electricity) cut-off
咳嗽késouto cough
制止zhìzhǐto curb; to put a stop to
中止zhōngzhǐto cease; to suspend
举止jǔzhǐbearing; manner

Questions about 止咳

What does 止咳 mean?

止咳 (zhǐ ké) means "to suppress coughing".

How do you write 止咳?

止咳 is made of 2 characters: 止 (4 strokes), 咳 (9 strokes). That is 13 strokes in total.

Is 止咳 an HSK word?

Yes. 止咳 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.