Grown-up in Chinese
grown-up · HSK 3
大人
- 大 big
- 人 person
这部电影孩子和大人都喜欢。 Both children and adults like this movie.
Other ways to say grown-up
More words with 大 or 人
How do you say grown-up in Chinese?
Grown-up in Chinese is 大人 (dà ren). You can also say 成人 (chéng rén).
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.