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Boyfriend in Chinese

boyfriend · HSK 1

男朋友 nán péng yǒu

  1. 男 nán male
  2. 朋 péng friend
  3. 友 yǒu friend

Counted with 个: 一个男朋友 yí gè nánpéngyǒu

她已经有男朋友了。 She already has a boyfriend.

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How do you say boyfriend in Chinese?

Boyfriend in Chinese is 男朋友 (nán péng yǒu).

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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