厉害

厉害 lìhài in a sentence

Severe (terrible - tough)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

厉害 (lìhài) means Severe (terrible - tough). Below are 2 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

今天雨下得很 厉害

Jīntiān yǔ xià de hěn lìhai.

It is raining hard today.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 厉害

他的汉语说得真 厉害

Tā de Hànyǔ shuō de zhēn lìhai.

His Chinese is really impressive.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 厉害

Questions about 厉害

How is 厉害 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 厉害 (lìhài, "Severe (terrible - tough)"), 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 厉害 an HSK word?

Yes — 厉害 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 厉害?

The dictionary page for 厉害 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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