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Newspaper in Chinese

newspaper · HSK 3

报纸 bào zhǐ

  1. 报 bào newspaper
  2. 纸 zhǐ paper

Counted with 份: 一份报纸 yí fèn bàozhǐ

爷爷每天早上看报纸。 Grandpa reads the newspaper every morning.

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How do you say newspaper in Chinese?

Newspaper in Chinese is 报纸 (bào zhǐ). You can also say 报社 (bào shè).

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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