Instructions in Chinese
instructions · HSK 4
说明书
- 说 to speak
- 明 bright
- 书 book
Counted with 份: 一份说明书
用之前先看看说明书。 Read the manual before using it.
Other ways to say instructions
More words with 说 or 明 or 书
How do you say instructions in Chinese?
Instructions in Chinese is 说明书 (shuō míng shū). You can also say 说明 (shuō míng).
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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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.