Athlete in Chinese
athlete · HSK 3
运动员
- 运 to move
- 动 to move
- 员 person
Counted with 名: 一名运动员
他是一名游泳运动员。 He is a swimmer.
Other ways to say athlete
More words with 运 or 动 or 员
How do you say athlete in Chinese?
Athlete in Chinese is 运动员 (yùn dòng yuán). You can also say 选手 (xuǎn shǒu).
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.
More free tools
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 CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.