Air in Chinese
air · HSK 4
气
自行车的轮胎没气了。 The bike tire is out of air.
Other ways to say air
More words with 气
How do you say air in Chinese?
Air in Chinese is 气 (qì). You can also say 空气 (kōng qì), 晾 (liàng), 通风 (tōng fēng), 播 (bō).
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.