How to say it in Chinese

Story in Chinese

story · HSK 3

故事 gù shi

  1. 故 gù reason
  2. 事 shì thing

Counted with 个: 一个故事 yí gè gùshi

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Other ways to say story

More words with 故 or 事

How do you say story in Chinese?

Story in Chinese is 故事 (gù shi). You can also say 楼 (lóu), 层 (céng), 传 (zhuàn).

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.