Chinese word dictionary

再见

zàijiàn · goodbye; see you again later

Practice word

Word information

Simplified再见

Traditional再見

Pinyinzàijiàn

Part of speech动

HSK 3.01

HSK 2.01

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

再zài

again, twice, re-

见jiàn

to see, to observe, to meet, to appear

How to learn 再见

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.

Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.

见jiàn

to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view

看见kànjiàn

to see; to catch sight of

听见tīngjiàn

to hear

再zài

again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur

不见bújiàn

not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing

常见chángjiàn

commonly seen; common; to see sth frequently