Sons and daughters in Chinese
sons and daughters · HSK 5
儿女
- 儿 son
- 女 woman
他们的儿女都在外地工作。 Their children all work in other cities.
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How do you say sons and daughters in Chinese?
Sons and daughters in Chinese is 儿女 (ér nǚ). You can also say 子女 (zǐ nǚ).
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?
Our own 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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