Luck in Chinese
luck · HSK 5
运气
- 运 to move
- 气 air
今天运气真好，我中奖了。 I'm really lucky today; I won a prize.
Other ways to say luck
More words with 运 or 气
How do you say luck in Chinese?
Luck in Chinese is 运气 (yùn qi). You can also say 运 (yùn), 幸运 (xìng yùn).
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?
Our own 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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