# 咳嗽 (késou)

In Mandarin Chinese, 咳嗽 (késou) means “to cough”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: to cough
- Pinyin: késou (ke2 sou5)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9
- HSK 2.0 · Level 4
- Measure word: 阵

## Examples

- 他感冒了，一直咳嗽。
  Tā gǎnmào le, yīzhí késou.
  He caught a cold and kept coughing.

## Characters

- [咳](https://hanziro.com/word/ke-cough/) (ké): to cough; cough
- 嗽 (sòu): to cough

https://hanziro.com/word/ke-sou-cough/

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