Football in Chinese
football · HSK 2
足球
- 足 foot
- 球 ball
Counted with 个: 一个足球
我周末喜欢踢足球。 I like playing soccer on weekends.
More words with 足 or 球
How do you say football in Chinese?
Football in Chinese is 足球 (zú qiú).
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.