Police in Chinese
police · HSK 4
警察
- 警 police
- 察 to examine
Counted with 个: 一个警察
我的钱包丢了，快叫警察。 My wallet is lost, call the police quickly.
Other ways to say police
More words with 警 or 察
How do you say police in Chinese?
Police in Chinese is 警察 (jǐng chá). You can also say 公安 (gōng ān).
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.