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Milk in Chinese

milk · HSK 1

牛奶 niú nǎi

  1. 牛 niú cow
  2. 奶 nǎi milk

Counted with 杯: 一杯牛奶 yì bēi niúnǎi

我每天早上喝一杯牛奶。 I drink a glass of milk every morning.

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How do you say milk in Chinese?

Milk in Chinese is 牛奶 (niú nǎi).

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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