Hobby in Chinese
hobby · HSK 2
爱好
- 爱 to love
- 好 good
Counted with 个: 一个爱好
你有什么爱好？ What hobbies do you have?
Other ways to say hobby
More words with 爱 or 好
How do you say hobby in Chinese?
Hobby in Chinese is 爱好 (ài hào). You can also say 兴趣 (xìng qù).
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.