Friendship in Chinese
friendship · HSK 4
友情
- 友 friend
- 情 feeling
我们之间的友情非常珍贵。 The friendship between us is very precious.
Other ways to say friendship
More words with 友 or 情
How do you say friendship in Chinese?
Friendship in Chinese is 友情 (yǒu qíng). You can also say 友谊 (yǒu yì), 友好 (yǒu hǎo).
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.