Ask a question in Chinese
to ask a question · HSK 5
提问
- 提 to lift
- 问 to ask
有问题可以举手提问。 If you have questions, raise your hand to ask.
More words with 提 or 问
How do you say ask a question in Chinese?
Ask a question in Chinese is 提问 (tí wèn).
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?
Our own 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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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.