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Swim in Chinese

to swim · HSK 2

游泳 yóu yǒng

  1. 游 yóu to travel
  2. 泳 yǒng to swim

我周末常去游泳。 I often go swimming on weekends.

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How do you say swim in Chinese?

Swim in Chinese is 游泳 (yóu yǒng). You can also say 游 (yóu).

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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