Countryside in Chinese
countryside · HSK 4
农村
- 农 agriculture
- 村 village
我爷爷奶奶住在农村。 My grandparents live in the countryside.
Other ways to say countryside
More words with 农 or 村
How do you say countryside in Chinese?
Countryside in Chinese is 农村 (nóng cūn). You can also say 乡 (xiāng), 乡村 (xiāng cūn).
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.