Smooth in Chinese
smooth · HSK 4
流利
- 流 to flow
- 利 advantage
她的英语说得很流利。 She speaks English very fluently.
Other ways to say smooth
More words with 流 or 利
How do you say smooth in Chinese?
Smooth in Chinese is 流利 (liú lì). You can also say 顺利 (shùn lì), 滑 (huá), 顺 (shùn).
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.