Dorm in Chinese
dorm · HSK 5
宿舍
- 宿 to stay overnight
- 舍 to give up
Counted with 间: 一间宿舍
我们宿舍住了四个人。 Four people live in our dorm room.
More words with 宿 or 舍
How do you say dorm in Chinese?
Dorm in Chinese is 宿舍 (sù shè).
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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