Pinyin: gǒu

dog

Example sentence

我家有一只小狗。

Wǒ jiā yǒu yī zhī xiǎo gǒu.

My family has a little dog.

What 狗 means

(gǒu) is a Chinese word meaning “dog”. It belongs to the Things & Animals topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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