niàn

variant of 念, to read aloud

verb HSK 3.0 · Band 5 trad. 唸

Watch it being written

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Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

老师念了一段课文。

The teacher read a passage from the text.

他还在念大学。

He is still in college.