Earphones in Chinese
earphones · HSK 3
耳机
- 耳 ear
- 机 machine
Counted with 副: 一副耳机
我戴上耳机听音乐。 I put on my headphones to listen to music.
More words with 耳 or 机
How do you say earphones in Chinese?
Earphones in Chinese is 耳机 (ěr jī).
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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