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Instructor in Chinese

instructor · HSK 4

教练 jiào liàn

  1. 教 jiāo to teach
  2. 练 liàn to practice

我的游泳教练非常耐心。 My swimming coach is very patient.

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How do you say instructor in Chinese?

Instructor in Chinese is 教练 (jiào liàn). You can also say 指导 (zhǐ dǎo).

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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