How to say it in Chinese

Put on makeup in Chinese

to put on makeup · HSK 6

化妆 huà zhuāng

  1. 化 huà to change
  2. 妆 zhuāng makeup

她每天早上都要化妆。 She puts on makeup every morning.

Hear 化妆 and see more sentences

More words with 化 or 妆

How do you say put on makeup in Chinese?

Put on makeup in Chinese is 化妆 (huà zhuāng).

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.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.