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Zoo in Chinese

zoo · HSK 3

动物园 dòng wù yuán

  1. 动 dòng to move
  2. 物 wù thing
  3. 园 yuán garden

Counted with 个: 一个动物园 yí gè dòngwùyuán

周末我们去动物园看熊猫吧。 Let's go to the zoo to see the pandas this weekend.

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How do you say zoo in Chinese?

Zoo in Chinese is 动物园 (dòng wù yuán).

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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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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