Stress in Chinese
stress · HSK 4
压力
- 压 to press
- 力 force
最近工作压力很大，我常常睡不好。 Work has been very stressful lately, and I often sleep badly.
Other ways to say stress
More words with 压 or 力
How do you say stress in Chinese?
Stress in Chinese is 压力 (yā lì). You can also say 强调 (qiáng diào), 讲 (jiǎng).
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.