Free in Chinese
free (of charge) · HSK 4
免费
- 免 to exempt
- 费 fee
这里的水是免费的。 The water here is free.
Other ways to say free
More words with 免 or 费
How do you say free in Chinese?
Free in Chinese is 免费 (miǎn fèi). You can also say 解放 (jiě fàng), 自由 (zì yóu), 空闲 (kòng xián).
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.