Skill in Chinese
skill · HSK 5
本领
- 本 root
- 领 to lead
Counted with 个: 一个本领
他学会了很多生活本领。 He learned a lot of life skills.
Other ways to say skill
More words with 本 or 领
How do you say skill in Chinese?
Skill in Chinese is 本领 (běn lǐng). You can also say 技能 (jì néng), 技巧 (jì qiǎo), 技艺 (jì yì), 能 (néng).
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?
Our own 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 our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.