Practical in Chinese
practical · HSK 5
实用
- 实 real
- 用 to use
这本书的内容很实用。 The content of this book is very practical.
Other ways to say practical
More words with 实 or 用
How do you say practical in Chinese?
Practical in Chinese is 实用 (shí yòng). You can also say 切实 (qiè shí), 现实 (xiàn shí).
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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Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.