Boy in Chinese
boy · HSK 2
男孩
- 男 male
- 孩 child
Counted with 个: 一个男孩
他家有两个男孩。 His family has two boys.
Other ways to say boy
More words with 男 or 孩
How do you say boy in Chinese?
Boy in Chinese is 男孩 (nán hái). You can also say 男孩儿 (nán hái r), 男生 (nán shēng).
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.