Stuff in Chinese
stuff · HSK 1
东西
- 东 east
- 西 west
Counted with 个: 一个东西
我去超市买点东西。 I'm going to the supermarket to buy some stuff.
Other ways to say stuff
More words with 东 or 西
How do you say stuff in Chinese?
Stuff in Chinese is 东西 (dōng xī). You can also say 材料 (cái liào), 填 (tián), 塞 (sāi), 料 (liào).
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.