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Paper in Chinese

paper · HSK 3

纸 zhǐ

Counted with 张: 一张纸 yì zhāng zhǐ

请给我一张纸。 Please give me a sheet of paper.

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Other ways to say paper

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How do you say paper in Chinese?

Paper in Chinese is 纸 (zhǐ). You can also say 论文 (lùn 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.