Genre in Chinese
genre · HSK 5
类型
- 类 kind
- 型 model
Counted with 种: 一种类型
你喜欢看什么类型的电影？ What kind of movies do you like to watch?
Other ways to say genre
More words with 类 or 型
How do you say genre in Chinese?
Genre in Chinese is 类型 (lèi xíng). You can also say 题材 (tí cái).
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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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 our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.