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Passport in Chinese

passport · HSK 3

护照 hù zhào

  1. 护 hù to protect
  2. 照 zhào to shine

Counted with 本: 一本护照 yì běn hùzhào

出国前别忘了带护照。 Don't forget to bring your passport before going abroad.

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How do you say passport in Chinese?

Passport in Chinese is 护照 (hù zhào).

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.