Hurt in Chinese
to hurt · HSK 2
疼
我的牙很疼。 My tooth really hurts.
Other ways to say hurt
How do you say hurt in Chinese?
Hurt in Chinese is 疼 (téng). You can also say 伤害 (shāng hài), 害 (hài), 伤 (shāng).
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.