Pet in Chinese
pet · HSK 5
宠物
- 宠 to spoil
- 物 thing
Counted with 只: 一只宠物
你家养宠物吗？ Do you have any pets at home?
More words with 宠 or 物
How do you say pet in Chinese?
Pet in Chinese is 宠物 (chǒng wù).
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?
Our own 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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