Relative in Chinese
relative · HSK 4
亲戚
- 亲 parent
- 戚 relative
Counted with 个: 一个亲戚
过年的时候我们去看亲戚。 We visit relatives at Chinese New Year.
Other ways to say relative
How do you say relative in Chinese?
Relative in Chinese is 亲戚 (qīn qi). You can also say 亲人 (qīn rén), 亲 (qīn), 相对 (xiāng duì).
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.