Moral in Chinese
moral · HSK 6
教训
- 教 to teach
- 训 to teach
这次失败给了我一个教训。 This failure taught me a lesson.
Other ways to say moral
More words with 教 or 训
How do you say moral in Chinese?
Moral in Chinese is 教训 (jiào xun). You can also say 道德 (dào dé).
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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