Well-known in Chinese
well-known · HSK 3
有名
- 有 to have
- 名 name
这家饭店很有名。 This restaurant is very famous.
Other ways to say well-known
More words with 有 or 名
How do you say well-known in Chinese?
Well-known in Chinese is 有名 (yǒu míng). You can also say 著名 (zhù míng), 知名 (zhī míng), 出名 (chū míng), 闻名 (wén míng).
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.