Gear in Chinese
gear · HSK 6
装备
- 装 to pack
- 备 to prepare
登山之前要准备好装备。 You need to get your gear ready before climbing the mountain.
Other ways to say gear
More words with 装 or 备
How do you say gear in Chinese?
Gear in Chinese is 装备 (zhuāng bèi). You can also say 挡 (dǎng).
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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