Chair in Chinese
chair · HSK 1
椅子
- 椅 chair
- 子 son
Counted with 把: 一把椅子
请坐在这把椅子上。 Please sit on this chair.
Other ways to say chair
More words with 椅 or 子
How do you say chair in Chinese?
Chair in Chinese is 椅子 (yǐ zi). You can also say 主持 (zhǔ chí), 讲座 (jiǎng zuò).
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.