Habit in Chinese
habit · HSK 3
习惯
- 习 to practice
- 惯 to be used to
Counted with 个: 一个习惯
早睡早起是好习惯。 Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit.
More words with 习 or 惯
How do you say habit in Chinese?
Habit in Chinese is 习惯 (xí guàn).
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.