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汉语

Hàn yǔ

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 漢語

汉语 (Hàn yǔ) means "Chinese language". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 汉语 means

1. Chinese language

The characters in 汉语

• 汉hànman
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 他学习汉语。
  He studies Chinese.
• 我会说汉语。
  I can speak Chinese.
• 我学习汉语。
  I am learning Chinese.
• 你在说汉语。
  You are speaking Chinese.
• 我学过汉语。
  I studied Chinese before.
• 我不会说汉语。
  I don't speak Chinese.

Words starting with 汉语

• 汉语拼音Hàn yǔ Pīn yīnHanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
• 汉语大字典Hàn yǔ Dà Zì diǎnHanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678…
• 汉语大词典Hàn yǔ Dà Cí diǎnHanyu Da Cidian, the largest Chinese dictionary, with over 375,000 word entries, first…
• 汉语水平考试Hàn yǔ Shuǐ píng Kǎo shìHSK (Chinese Proficiency Test)

Words containing 汉语

• 上古汉语shàng gǔ Hàn yǔOld Chinese (linguistics)
• 中古汉语zhōng gǔ Hàn yǔMiddle Chinese (linguistics)
• 商务汉语考试Shāng wù Hàn yǔ Kǎo shìBusiness Chinese Test (BCT)

Where 汉语 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Work and Study (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Hàn yǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.