Light in Chinese
light · HSK 3
灯
Counted with 盏: 一盏灯
睡觉前请把灯关上。 Please turn off the light before going to bed.
Other ways to say light
More words with 灯
How do you say light in Chinese?
Light in Chinese is 灯 (dēng). You can also say 光 (guāng), 轻松 (qīng sōng), 轻 (qīng), 淡 (dàn).
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.