Sms in Chinese
SMS · HSK 4
短信
- 短 short
- 信 letter
Counted with 条: 一条短信
到家了给我发个短信。 Send me a text when you get home.
More words with 短 or 信
How do you say sms in Chinese?
Sms in Chinese is 短信 (duǎn xìn).
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.