How to say it in Chinese

Many in Chinese

many · HSK 1

多 duō

今天街上人很多。 There are a lot of people on the street today.

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Other ways to say many

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How do you say many in Chinese?

Many in Chinese is 多 (duō). You can also say 好多 (hǎo duō), 许多 (xǔ duō), 众多 (zhòng duō), 诸多 (zhū duō).

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.