Neighborhood in Chinese
neighborhood · HSK 5
社区
- 社 society
- 区 area
Counted with 个: 一个社区
我们社区新开了一家超市。 A new supermarket just opened in our neighborhood.
Other ways to say neighborhood
More words with 社 or 区
How do you say neighborhood in Chinese?
Neighborhood in Chinese is 社区 (shè qū). You can also say 里 (lǐ), 街道 (jiē dào).
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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