将来 jiānglái▶ futuro

Stroke order

将来 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 将 — 9 strokes
• 来 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. in the future
2. future
3. the future

Example sentences

• 将来我想当老师。Jiānglái wǒ xiǎng dāng lǎoshī.In the future I want to be a teacher.
• 将来你想做什么？Jiānglái nǐ xiǎng zuò shénme?What do you want to do in the future?

Related words

• 从来Siempre
• 原来Original
• 本来originalmente
• 来自Venir de, proceder de
• 来不及No hay suficiente tiempo
• 来得及A tiempo

将来 is pronounced jiānglái and means “futuro”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 将来 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.