Butterfly in Chinese
butterfly · HSK 5
蝴蝶
- 蝴 butterfly
- 蝶 butterfly
Counted with 只: 一只蝴蝶
花园里飞来了一只蝴蝶。 A butterfly flew into the garden.
How do you say butterfly in Chinese?
Butterfly in Chinese is 蝴蝶 (hú dié).
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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