Save in Chinese
to save · HSK 4
节约
- 节 festival
- 约 to make an appointment
我们要节约用水。 We should save water.
Other ways to say save
More words with 节 or 约
How do you say save in Chinese?
Save in Chinese is 节约 (jié yuē). You can also say 救 (jiù), 节省 (jié shěng), 省 (shěng), 保存 (bǎo cún).
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.