Careful in Chinese
careful · HSK 3
小心
- 小 small
- 心 heart
他做事一向很小心。 He has always been careful in what he does.
Other ways to say careful
More words with 小 or 心
How do you say careful in Chinese?
Careful in Chinese is 小心 (xiǎo xīn). You can also say 细心 (xì xīn), 仔细 (zǐ xì), 谨慎 (jǐn shèn), 精心 (jīng xīn).
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.