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Sun in Chinese

sun · HSK 3

太阳 tài yáng

  1. 太 tài too
  2. 阳 yáng sun

Counted with 个: 一个太阳 yí gè tàiyáng

太阳从东边升起来了。 The sun has risen in the east.

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Other ways to say sun

More words with 太 or 阳

How do you say sun in Chinese?

Sun in Chinese is 太阳 (tài yáng). You can also say 日 (rì).

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.