How to say it in Chinese

Fun in Chinese

fun · HSK 1

好玩 hǎo wán

  1. 好 hǎo good
  2. 玩 wán to play

这个城市有很多好玩的地方。 This city has lots of fun places.

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More words with 好 or 玩

How do you say fun in Chinese?

Fun in Chinese is 好玩 (hǎo wán). You can also say 好玩儿 (hǎo wán r), 有意思 (yǒu yì si), 有趣 (yǒu qù), 乐趣 (lè qù).

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.