Performer in Chinese
performer · HSK 4
演员
- 演 to act
- 员 person
Counted with 个: 一个演员
她从小就想当演员。 She has wanted to be an actress since she was little.
Other ways to say performer
More words with 演 or 员
How do you say performer in Chinese?
Performer in Chinese is 演员 (yǎn yuán). You can also say 艺人 (yì rén).
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.