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户口 (hù kǒu) — household registration (hukou), the official record of one's registered residence in China; number of households and total population (statistical sense)

Definition

户口 (hùkǒu) is China's official household registration — a record tied to a place that determines where you access school, healthcare, and other public services. In statistics it simply counts households and population.

noun
household registration (hukou), the official record of one's registered residence in Chinanumber of households and total population (statistical sense)

Examples

  • 户口，。
    Méi yǒu běn dì hù kǒu, hái zi shàng xué hěn má fan.
    Without a local hukou, it's very troublesome for children to attend school.
  • 户口。
    Zhōng guó de hù kǒu zhì dù zhèng zài zhú bù gǎi gé.
    China's hukou system is gradually being reformed.
  • 户口。
    Tā huā le shí nián cái bǎ hù kǒu qiān dào shàng hǎi.
    It took him ten years to transfer his hukou to Shanghai.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

户hùhousehold
口kǒuperson

户 is a household, 口 is a person; together they denote household and population.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 戶; 户 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 戶 is a picture of half of a gate. The simplified 户 is a later shorthand, so its shape should not be read as the original parts.

Open 户 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 口 looks like an open mouth.

Open 口 →
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