Art in Chinese
art · HSK 4
艺术
- 艺 skill
- 术 skill
Counted with 门: 一门艺术
她在大学学的是艺术。 She studied art in college.
Other ways to say art
More words with 艺 or 术
How do you say art in Chinese?
Art in Chinese is 艺术 (yì shù). You can also say 美术 (měi shù).
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.