# 双胞胎 (shuāngbāotāi)

In Mandarin Chinese, 双胞胎 (shuāngbāotāi) means “twins”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: twins
- Pinyin: shuāngbāotāi (shuang1 bao1 tai1)
- Traditional: 雙胞胎
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6
- Measure word: 对

## Examples

- 她的两个儿子是双胞胎，长得非常像。
  Tā de liǎng gè érzi shì shuāngbāotāi, zhǎng de fēicháng xiàng.
  Her two sons are twins and look very much alike.

## Characters

- [双](https://hanziro.com/word/shuang-pair/) (shuāng): (measure word) pair; both
- 胞 (bāo): placenta; womb
- [胎](https://hanziro.com/word/tai-fetus/) (tāi): fetus; tire

https://hanziro.com/word/shuang-bao-tai-twins/

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