人类 (rénlèi) means Mankind (humanity - human race). Below are 4 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
这是 人类 的共同问题。
Zhè shì rénlèi de gòngtóng wèntí.
This is a problem for all humanity.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 人类
人类 一直在探索宇宙。
Rénlèi yìzhí zài tànsuǒ yǔzhòu.
Humanity has always been exploring the universe.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 探索
人类 第一次进入太空是在上世纪。
Rénlèi dì yī cì jìnrù tàikōng shì zài shàng shìjì.
Humans first entered space in the last century.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 太空
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How is 人类 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 人类 (rénlèi, "Mankind (humanity - human race)"), 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.
Is 人类 an HSK word?
Yes — 人类 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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