Circumstances in Chinese
circumstances · HSK 4
情况
- 情 feeling
- 况 situation
Counted with 个: 一个情况
你那边现在情况怎么样？ How is the situation on your end now?
Other ways to say circumstances
More words with 情 or 况
How do you say circumstances in Chinese?
Circumstances in Chinese is 情况 (qíng kuàng). You can also say 形势 (xíng shì), 情形 (qíng xing), 环境 (huán jìng), 条件 (tiáo jiàn).
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.