Daughter in Chinese
daughter · HSK 1
女儿
- 女 woman
- 儿 son
Counted with 个: 一个女儿
我女儿今年六岁了。 My daughter is six this year.
Other ways to say daughter
More words with 女 or 儿
How do you say daughter in Chinese?
Daughter in Chinese is 女儿 (nǚ ér). You can also say 女 (nǚ), 姑娘 (gū niang).
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.