Useful in Chinese
useful · HSK 3
有用
- 有 to have
- 用 to use
这本书对我很有用。 This book is very useful to me.
Other ways to say useful
More words with 有 or 用
How do you say useful in Chinese?
Useful in Chinese is 有用 (yǒu yòng). You can also say 实用 (shí yòng), 有益 (yǒu yì).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.