Heart in Chinese
heart · HSK 4
心
Counted with 颗: 一颗心
她紧张得心都快跳出来了。 She was so nervous her heart was almost jumping out of her chest.
Other ways to say heart
More words with 心
How do you say heart in Chinese?
Heart in Chinese is 心 (xīn). You can also say 内心 (nèi xīn), 中心 (zhōng xīn), 核心 (hé xīn), 心灵 (xīn líng).
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.