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Toothpaste in Chinese

toothpaste · HSK 4

牙膏 yá gāo

  1. 牙 yá tooth
  2. 膏 gāo paste

Counted with 支: 一支牙膏 yì zhī yágāo

牙膏快用完了。 The toothpaste is almost used up.

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How do you say toothpaste in Chinese?

Toothpaste in Chinese is 牙膏 (yá gāo).

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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