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Chest in Chinese

chest · HSK 3

箱子 xiāng zi

  1. 箱 xiāng box
  2. 子 zǐ son

Counted with 个: 一个箱子 yí gè xiāngzi

这个箱子太重了。 This suitcase is too heavy.

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Other ways to say chest

More words with 箱 or 子

How do you say chest in Chinese?

Chest in Chinese is 箱子 (xiāng zi). You can also say 胸 (xiōng).

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.