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Paper towel in Chinese

paper towel · HSK 4

纸巾 zhǐ jīn

  1. 纸 zhǐ paper
  2. 巾 jīn towel

Counted with 张: 一张纸巾 yì zhāng zhǐjīn

能给我一张纸巾吗? Could you give me a tissue?

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How do you say paper towel in Chinese?

Paper towel in Chinese is 纸巾 (zhǐ jīn).

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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