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Festival in Chinese

festival · HSK 3

节 jié

今天是什么节?街上这么多人。 What holiday is it today? There are so many people on the street.

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How do you say festival in Chinese?

Festival in Chinese is 节 (jié). You can also say 节日 (jié rì), 大会 (dà huì).

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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