Marry in Chinese
to marry · HSK 3
结婚
- 结 to tie
- 婚 marriage
我姐姐明年要结婚了。 My older sister is getting married next year.
Other ways to say marry
More words with 结 or 婚
How do you say marry in Chinese?
Marry in Chinese is 结婚 (jié hūn). You can also say 嫁 (jià), 娶 (qǔ), 结合 (jié hé).
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.