Allowance in Chinese
allowance · HSK 4
零花钱
- 零 zero
- 花 flower
- 钱 money
妈妈每周给我五十块零花钱。 Mom gives me fifty yuan of pocket money every week.
Other ways to say allowance
More words with 零 or 花 or 钱
How do you say allowance in Chinese?
Allowance in Chinese is 零花钱 (líng huā qián). You can also say 补贴 (bǔ tiē), 贴 (tiē).
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.