Inform in Chinese
to inform · HSK 2
告诉
- 告 to tell
- 诉 to tell
请告诉我你的电话号码。 Please tell me your phone number.
Other ways to say inform
More words with 告 or 诉
How do you say inform in Chinese?
Inform in Chinese is 告诉 (gào sù). You can also say 通知 (tōng zhī).
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.