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Culture in Chinese

culture · HSK 3

文化 wén huà

  1. 文 wén writing
  2. 化 huà to change

我对中国文化很感兴趣。 I'm very interested in Chinese culture.

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How do you say culture in Chinese?

Culture in Chinese is 文化 (wén huà). You can also say 文明 (wén míng), 培养 (péi yǎng).

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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