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Play with in Chinese

to play with · HSK 6

逗 dòu

他喜欢逗家里的小猫玩。 He likes to tease the family cat.

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How do you say play with in Chinese?

Play with in Chinese is 逗 (dòu). You can also say 玩 (wán), 弄 (nòng).

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.

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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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