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Holiday in Chinese

holiday · HSK 3

假期 jià qī

  1. 假 jiǎ fake
  2. 期 qī period

Counted with 个: 一个假期 yí gè jiàqī

这个假期你打算去哪儿玩? Where are you planning to go this vacation?

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Other ways to say holiday

More words with 假 or 期

How do you say holiday in Chinese?

Holiday in Chinese is 假期 (jià qī). You can also say 节日 (jié rì), 节 (jié), 假日 (jià rì), 假 (jià).

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.