Friends and relatives in Chinese
friends and relatives · HSK 5
亲朋好友
- 亲 parent
- 朋 friend
- 好 good
- 友 friend
过年时我们请了很多亲朋好友来家里。 During the New Year we invited lots of friends and relatives to our home.
More words with 亲 or 朋 or 好 or 友
How do you say friends and relatives in Chinese?
Friends and relatives in Chinese is 亲朋好友 (qīn péng hǎo yǒu).
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?
Our own 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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