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Windowsill in Chinese

windowsill · HSK 5

窗台 chuāng tái

  1. 窗 chuāng window
  2. 台 tái platform

Counted with 个: 一个窗台 yí gè chuāngtái

窗台上放着一盆花。 There's a pot of flowers on the windowsill.

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How do you say windowsill in Chinese?

Windowsill in Chinese is 窗台 (chuāng tái).

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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