Text in Chinese
text · HSK 3
课文
- 课 class
- 文 writing
Counted with 篇: 一篇课文
请大家把课文读一遍。 Everyone, please read the text through once.
Other ways to say text
More words with 课 or 文
How do you say text in Chinese?
Text in Chinese is 课文 (kè wén). You can also say 文字 (wén zì), 信息 (xìn xī).
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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Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.