Dance in Chinese
to dance · HSK 2
跳舞
- 跳 to jump
- 舞 to dance
她很喜欢跳舞。 She really likes dancing.
Other ways to say dance
More words with 跳 or 舞
How do you say dance in Chinese?
Dance in Chinese is 跳舞 (tiào wǔ). You can also say 舞蹈 (wǔ dǎo).
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.