How to say it in Chinese

Tv in Chinese

TV · HSK 1

电视 diàn shì

  1. 电 diàn electricity
  2. 视 shì to look at

Counted with 台: 一台电视 yì tái diànshì

晚上我们一起看电视。 We watch TV together in the evening.

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How do you say tv in Chinese?

Tv in Chinese is 电视 (diàn shì).

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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