Singer in Chinese
singer · HSK 4
歌手
- 歌 song
- 手 hand
Counted with 位: 一位歌手
我哥哥想当一名歌手。 My older brother wants to be a singer.
More words with 歌 or 手
How do you say singer in Chinese?
Singer in Chinese is 歌手 (gē shǒu).
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.