How to say it in Chinese

Song in Chinese

song · HSK 1

歌 gē

Counted with 首: 一首歌 yì shǒu gē

这首歌很好听。 This song sounds great.

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Other ways to say song

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How do you say song in Chinese?

Song in Chinese is 歌 (gē). You can also say 歌曲 (gē qǔ), 曲 (qǔ).

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.