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Good night in Chinese

good night · HSK 4

晚安 wǎn ān

  1. 晚 wǎn evening
  2. 安 ān safe

妈妈,晚安,明天见! Good night, Mom, see you tomorrow!

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How do you say good night in Chinese?

Good night in Chinese is 晚安 (wǎn ān).

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.