Flu in Chinese
flu · HSK 3
感冒
- 感 to feel
- 冒 to emit
我得了感冒，在家休息。 I caught a cold and am resting at home.
Other ways to say flu
More words with 感 or 冒
How do you say flu in Chinese?
Flu in Chinese is 感冒 (gǎn mào). You can also say 流感 (liú gǎn).
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.