Familiar in Chinese
familiar · HSK 4
熟悉
- 熟 ripe
- 悉 to know
这个声音听起来很熟悉。 This voice sounds very familiar.
Other ways to say familiar
More words with 熟 or 悉
How do you say familiar in Chinese?
Familiar in Chinese is 熟悉 (shú xī). You can also say 熟 (shú), 亲切 (qīn qiè).
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.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.