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Housing estate in Chinese

housing estate · HSK 3

小区 xiǎo qū

  1. 小 xiǎo small
  2. 区 qū area

Counted with 个: 一个小区 yí gè xiǎoqū

我们小区里有一个游泳池。 There's a swimming pool in our residential compound.

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How do you say housing estate in Chinese?

Housing estate in Chinese is 小区 (xiǎo qū).

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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