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Well-behaved in Chinese

well-behaved · HSK 6

听话 tīng huà

  1. 听 tīng to listen
  2. 话 huà words

这孩子很听话,从不让父母操心。 This child is very well-behaved and never worries his parents.

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How do you say well-behaved in Chinese?

Well-behaved in Chinese is 听话 (tīng huà). You can also say 规矩 (guī ju), 老实 (lǎo shi).

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.

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Our own 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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