Greet in Chinese
to greet · HSK 4
打招呼
- 打 to hit
- 招 to recruit
- 呼 to breathe out
他笑着跟我打招呼。 He greeted me with a smile.
Other ways to say greet
More words with 打 or 招 or 呼
How do you say greet in Chinese?
Greet in Chinese is 打招呼 (dǎ zhāo hu). You can also say 迎接 (yíng jiē), 迎 (yíng).
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.