sǎn in a sentence

Umbrella (parasol - sunshade)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 5 sentences

伞 (sǎn) means Umbrella (parasol - sunshade). Below are 5 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

我的 放在门口了。

Wǒ de sǎn fàng zài ménkǒu le.

I left my umbrella by the door.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

外面下雨了,带把 吧。

Wàimiàn xià yǔ le, dài bǎ sǎn ba.

It's raining outside — take an umbrella.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

今天下雨,你带 了吗?

Jīntiān xià yǔ, nǐ dài sǎn le ma?

It's raining today — did you bring an umbrella?

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

From the graded readers

下雨了,我们都没有

xiàyǔ le / liǎo / liào, wǒmen dōu méiyǒu sǎn.

It started to rain, and none of us had an umbrella.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today

我们没有带 ,只好跑回家。

wǒmen méiyǒu dài sǎn, zhǐhǎo pǎo huíjiā.

We hadn't brought an umbrella, so we had to run home.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day

Questions about 伞

How is 伞 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 伞 (sǎn, "Umbrella (parasol - sunshade)"), 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 伞 inside a longer word?

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

Is 伞 an HSK word?

Yes — 伞 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 伞?

The dictionary page for 伞 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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