Sofa in Chinese
sofa · HSK 3
沙发
- 沙 sand
- 发 to send
Counted with 张: 一张沙发
他躺在沙发上看电视。 He is lying on the sofa watching TV.
More words with 沙 or 发
How do you say sofa in Chinese?
Sofa in Chinese is 沙发 (shā fā).
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.