Character in Chinese
character · HSK 1
字
Counted with 个: 一个字
这个字怎么读？ How do you read this character?
Other ways to say character
More words with 字
How do you say character in Chinese?
Character in Chinese is 字 (zì). You can also say 性 (xìng), 角色 (jué sè), 性质 (xìng zhì), 角 (jué).
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.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.