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Seven

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 9 sentences

七 (qī) means Seven. Below are 9 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

点回家。

Tā qī diǎn huí jiā.

He goes home at seven o'clock.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 ·

我早上 点起床。

Wǒ zǎoshang qī diǎn qǐchuáng.

I get up at seven in the morning.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 早上

我一般 点起床。

Wǒ yìbān qī diǎn qǐchuáng.

I usually get up at seven.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 一般

From the graded readers

我每天 点起床。

wǒ měitiān qī diǎn qǐchuáng.

I get up at seven every day.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day

我早上 点到了火车站。

wǒ zǎoshang qī diǎn dàole huǒchēzhàn.

I got to the station at seven in the morning.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai

点就起床了,跑了半个小时步。

wǒ qī diǎn jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào, pǎo le / liǎo / liào bànge xiǎoshí bù.

I got up at seven and ran for half an hour.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend

我的手机没有响,我 点五十才醒。

wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī méiyǒu xiǎng, wǒ qī diǎn wǔshí cái xǐng.

My phone didn't go off and I didn't wake until ten to eight.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work

那位老先生跟我说:“我 年前开始的。我唯一后悔的是没有更早开始。”

nàiwèi lǎo xiānsheng gēn wǒ shuō:" wǒ qī niánqián kāishǐ de / dì. wǒ wéi / wěi yī hòuhuǐ de / dì shì méiyǒu gèng / gēng zǎo kāishǐ."

The elderly gentleman said to me, "I started seven years ago. My only regret is not starting sooner."

Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty

From the grammar library

我每天早上 点起床。

Wǒ měitiān zǎoshang qī diǎn qǐchuáng.

I get up at seven every morning.

Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go

Questions about 七

How is 七 used in a sentence?

This page shows 9 sentences using 七 (qī, "Seven"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 七 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 七 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 七 an HSK word?

Yes — 七 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 七?

The dictionary page for 七 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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