Current in Chinese
current · HSK 5
当前
- 当 to act as
- 前 front
当前的任务是学好中文。 The current task is to learn Chinese well.
Other ways to say current
More words with 当 or 前
How do you say current in Chinese?
Current in Chinese is 当前 (dāng qián). You can also say 流 (liú), 通行 (tōng xíng), 潮流 (cháo liú).
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?
Our own 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 our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.