How to say it in Chinese

Standard in Chinese

standard · HSK 3

水平 shuǐ píng

  1. 水 shuǐ water
  2. 平 píng flat

他的中文水平很高。 His Chinese is at a very high level.

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How do you say standard in Chinese?

Standard in Chinese is 水平 (shuǐ píng). You can also say 标准 (biāo zhǔn), 规范 (guī fàn), 正规 (zhèng guī), 准 (zhǔn).

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.