Material in Chinese
material · HSK 4
材料
- 材 material
- 料 material
Counted with 种: 一种材料
这种材料又轻又结实。 This material is light and strong.
Other ways to say material
More words with 材 or 料
How do you say material in Chinese?
Material in Chinese is 材料 (cái liào). You can also say 资料 (zī liào), 料 (liào), 材质 (cái zhì), 物质 (wù zhì).
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.