朋友
Pinyin: péng yǒu
friend
Example sentence
我和朋友去看电影。
Wǒ hé péngyǒu qù kàn diànyǐng.
I go to see a movie with my friend.
What 朋友 means
朋友 (péng yǒu) is a Chinese word meaning “friend”. It belongs to the People & Family topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.