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Girlfriend in Chinese

girlfriend · HSK 1

女朋友 nǚ péng you

  1. 女 nǚ woman
  2. 朋 péng friend
  3. 友 yǒu friend

Counted with 个: 一个女朋友 yí gè nǚpéngyou

他的女朋友是一名老师。 His girlfriend is a teacher.

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How do you say girlfriend in Chinese?

Girlfriend in Chinese is 女朋友 (nǚ péng you).

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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