Kid in Chinese
kid · HSK 1
孩子
- 孩 child
- 子 son
Counted with 个: 一个孩子
公园里有很多孩子在玩。 There are lots of kids playing in the park.
Other ways to say kid
More words with 孩 or 子
How do you say kid in Chinese?
Kid in Chinese is 孩子 (hái zi). You can also say 小朋友 (xiǎo péng you), 小孩 (xiǎo hái), 小孩儿 (xiǎo hái r), 开玩笑 (kāi wán xiào).
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.