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Headphones in Chinese

headphones · HSK 3

耳机 ěr jī

  1. 耳 ěr ear
  2. 机 jī machine

Counted with 副: 一副耳机 yí fù ěrjī

我戴上耳机听音乐。 I put on my headphones to listen to music.

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How do you say headphones in Chinese?

Headphones in Chinese is 耳机 (ěr jī).

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.

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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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