Capital in Chinese
capital (city) · HSK 4
首都
- 首 head
- 都 all
Counted with 个: 一个首都
北京是中国的首都。 Beijing is the capital of China.
Other ways to say capital
More words with 首 or 都
How do you say capital in Chinese?
Capital in Chinese is 首都 (shǒu dū). You can also say 资金 (zī jīn), 资本 (zī běn).
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.