Children in Chinese
children · HSK 4
儿童
- 儿 son
- 童 child
这里的儿童票半价。 Children's tickets here are half price.
Other ways to say children
More words with 儿 or 童
How do you say children in Chinese?
Children in Chinese is 儿童 (ér tóng). You can also say 儿女 (ér nǚ), 子女 (zǐ nǚ), 少儿 (shào ér).
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.