How to say it in Chinese

Sing in Chinese

to sing · HSK 1

唱 chàng

她唱得真好听。 She sings really beautifully.

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How do you say sing in Chinese?

Sing in Chinese is 唱 (chàng). You can also say 演唱 (yǎn chàng), 歌唱 (gē chàng), 歌 (gē).

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.