Music in Chinese
music · HSK 3
音乐
- 音 sound
- 乐 happy
Counted with 首: 一首音乐
我喜欢一边听音乐一边看书。 I like to read while listening to music.
Other ways to say music
More words with 音 or 乐
How do you say music in Chinese?
Music in Chinese is 音乐 (yīn yuè). You can also say 曲 (qǔ).
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.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.