纽 扣

niǔkòu

“Button” in Chinese is 纽扣 (niǔkòu).

Meaning

button

Example

你衬衣的纽扣快掉了。

Your shirt button is coming off.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

niǔHSK 7-97 strokesto turn kòuHSK 66 strokesto fasten

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