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Romantic love in Chinese

romantic love · HSK 4

爱情 ài qíng

  1. 爱 ài to love
  2. 情 qíng feeling

Counted with 份: 一份爱情 yí fèn àiqíng

这是一个关于爱情的故事。 This is a story about love.

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How do you say romantic love in Chinese?

Romantic love in Chinese is 爱情 (ài qíng). You can also say 恋爱 (liàn ài).

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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