Regret in Chinese
to regret · HSK 4
后悔
- 后 after
- 悔 to regret
我很后悔没听你的话。 I really regret not listening to you.
Other ways to say regret
More words with 后 or 悔
How do you say regret in Chinese?
Regret in Chinese is 后悔 (hòu huǐ). You can also say 遗憾 (yí hàn), 可惜 (kě xī), 恨 (hèn).
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.