Tone in Chinese
tone · HSK 5
语气
- 语 language
- 气 air
他说话的语气很不客气。 His tone was very rude.
Other ways to say tone
More words with 语 or 气
How do you say tone in Chinese?
Tone in Chinese is 语气 (yǔ qì). You can also say 声调 (shēng diào), 声 (shēng), 调 (diào).
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?
Our own 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.
More free tools
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 our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.