Representative in Chinese
representative · HSK 5
代表
- 代 generation
- 表 table
Counted with 个: 一个代表
他是我们班的代表。 He is our class's representative.
Other ways to say representative
More words with 代 or 表
How do you say representative in Chinese?
Representative in Chinese is 代表 (dài biǎo). You can also say 典型 (diǎn xíng).
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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