Young person in Chinese
young person · HSK 4
少年
- 少 few
- 年 year
Counted with 个: 一个少年
那个少年每天下午都去踢球。 That teenage boy goes to play football every afternoon.
More words with 少 or 年
How do you say young person in Chinese?
Young person in Chinese is 少年 (shào nián).
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.