Act in Chinese
to act · HSK 3
表演
- 表 table
- 演 to act
Counted with 场: 一场表演
孩子们在台上表演唱歌。 The children are performing songs on stage.
Other ways to say act
More words with 表 or 演
How do you say act in Chinese?
Act in Chinese is 表演 (biǎo yǎn). You can also say 演 (yǎn), 行为 (xíng wéi), 扮演 (bàn yǎn), 举动 (jǔ dòng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.