Composition in Chinese
composition · HSK 4
作文
- 作 to do
- 文 writing
Counted with 篇: 一篇作文
老师让我们写一篇作文。 The teacher asked us to write an essay.
Other ways to say composition
More words with 作 or 文
How do you say composition in Chinese?
Composition in Chinese is 作文 (zuò wén). You can also say 结构 (jié gòu), 构成 (gòu chéng), 写作 (xiě zuò).
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.