Communicate in Chinese
to communicate · HSK 4
交流
- 交 to hand over
- 流 to flow
我们常常用英语交流。 We often communicate in English.
Other ways to say communicate
More words with 交 or 流
How do you say communicate in Chinese?
Communicate in Chinese is 交流 (jiāo liú). You can also say 沟通 (gōu tōng).
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.