How to say it in Chinese

Shut in Chinese

to shut · HSK 3

关 guān

外面很冷,请把门关好。 It's cold outside, please close the door properly.

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How do you say shut in Chinese?

Shut in Chinese is 关 (guān). You can also say 合 (hé), 关闭 (guān bì), 闭 (bì).

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.