Gender in Chinese
gender · HSK 4
性别
- 性 nature
- 别 don't
请在表格上填写你的姓名和性别。 Please fill in your name and gender on the form.
Other ways to say gender
More words with 性 or 别
How do you say gender in Chinese?
Gender in Chinese is 性别 (xìng bié). You can also say 性 (xìng).
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.