Watch in Chinese
to watch · HSK 1
看
晚上我们一起看电影吧。 Let's watch a movie together tonight.
Other ways to say watch
More words with 看
How do you say watch in Chinese?
Watch in Chinese is 看 (kàn). You can also say 观看 (guān kàn), 观察 (guān chá), 收看 (shōu kàn), 更 (gēng).
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.