Son in Chinese
son · HSK 1
儿子
- 儿 son
- 子 son
Counted with 个: 一个儿子
他儿子今年五岁。 His son is five this year.
Other ways to say son
More words with 儿 or 子
How do you say son in Chinese?
Son in Chinese is 儿子 (ér zi). You can also say 子 (zǐ), 男 (nán).
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.