Official in Chinese
official · HSK 4
正式
- 正 straight
- 式 style
明天的会议很正式。 Tomorrow's meeting is very formal.
Other ways to say official
More words with 正 or 式
How do you say official in Chinese?
Official in Chinese is 正式 (zhèng shì). You can also say 官 (guān), 官方 (guān fāng), 官员 (guān yuán), 公 (gōng).
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.