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Event in Chinese

event · HSK 4

活动 huó dòng

  1. 活 huó to live
  2. 动 dòng to move

Counted with 项: 一项活动 yí xiàng huódòng

学校周末有很多活动。 The school has lots of activities on the weekend.

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Other ways to say event

More words with 活 or 动

How do you say event in Chinese?

Event in Chinese is 活动 (huó dòng). You can also say 事件 (shì jiàn), 项目 (xiàng mù).

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.