Parent in Chinese
parent · HSK 4
家长
- 家 home
- 长 long
Counted with 个: 一个家长
老师给家长打了电话。 The teacher called the parents.
Other ways to say parent
More words with 家 or 长
How do you say parent in Chinese?
Parent in Chinese is 家长 (jiā zhǎng). You can also say 亲 (qīn).
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.