VocabularyHSK 3 · core

汉语

Hànyǔ

Chinese language

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

漢chinese han

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Examples

我学汉语。
I study Chinese.
汉语很有意思。
Chinese is interesting.

Collocations

学汉语说汉语汉语水平

Mnemonic

汉语 Hànyǔ "Chinese language" — 汉 (Han ethnicity, traditional 漢) + 语 (language, traditional 語). Three near-synonyms split by context: 汉语 (Han language, scholarly), 中文 (Chinese, everyday/written), 华语 (Chinese among overseas Chinese). False friend: Japanese 漢語 kango = "Sino-Japanese vocabulary".

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