How to say it in Chinese

News in Chinese

news · HSK 3

新闻 xīn wén

  1. 新 xīn new
  2. 闻 wén to hear

Counted with 条: 一条新闻 yì tiáo xīnwén

我每天早上看新闻。 I watch the news every morning.

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How do you say news in Chinese?

News in Chinese is 新闻 (xīn wén). You can also say 消息 (xiāo xi), 信息 (xìn xī), 信 (xìn), 闻 (wén).

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.