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Village in Chinese

village · HSK 4

村 cūn

Counted with 个: 一个村 yí gè cūn

他们村有三百多户人家。 Their village has over three hundred households.

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How do you say village in Chinese?

Village in Chinese is 村 (cūn). You can also say 农村 (nóng cūn), 乡 (xiāng), 乡村 (xiāng cūn), 村庄 (cūn zhuāng).

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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