Lady in Chinese
lady · HSK 1
女士
- 女 woman
- 士 scholar
Counted with 位: 一位女士
女士们，先生们，晚上好！ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!
Other ways to say lady
More words with 女 or 士
How do you say lady in Chinese?
Lady in Chinese is 女士 (nǚ shì). You can also say 太太 (tài tai).
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.