Ice cream in Chinese
ice cream · HSK 3
冰激凌
- 冰 ice
- 激 to stir up
- 凌 to approach
Counted with 个: 一个冰激凌
夏天我最爱吃冰激凌。 In summer I love eating ice cream most.
Other ways to say ice cream
More words with 冰 or 激 or 凌
How do you say ice cream in Chinese?
Ice cream in Chinese is 冰激凌 (bīng jī líng). You can also say 雪糕 (xuě gāo).
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.