Clothing in Chinese
clothing · HSK 1
衣服
- 衣 clothes
- 服 clothes
Counted with 件: 一件衣服
我今天要洗衣服。 I need to do laundry today.
Other ways to say clothing
More words with 衣 or 服
How do you say clothing in Chinese?
Clothing in Chinese is 衣服 (yī fu). You can also say 服装 (fú zhuāng), 装 (zhuāng).
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.