Plate in Chinese
plate · HSK 3
盘子
- 盘 plate
- 子 son
Counted with 个: 一个盘子
请帮我把盘子洗一下。 Please help me wash the plates.
Other ways to say plate
More words with 盘 or 子
How do you say plate in Chinese?
Plate in Chinese is 盘子 (pán zi). You can also say 牌子 (pái zi), 牌 (pái), 盘 (pán).
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.