发明 (fāmíng) means Invention (invent). Below are 6 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
这项 发明 改变了生活。
Zhè xiàng fāmíng gǎibiàn le shēnghuó.
This invention changed the way we live.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 发明
这项 发明 是他最杰出的贡献。
Zhè xiàng fāmíng shì tā zuì jiéchū de gòngxiàn.
This invention is his most outstanding contribution.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 杰出
这项 发明 是技术史上的里程碑。
Zhè xiàng fāmíng shì jìshù shǐ shang de lǐchéngbēi.
This invention is a milestone in the history of technology.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 里程碑
指南针是中国古代的重要 发明 。
Zhǐnánzhēn shì Zhōngguó gǔdài de zhòngyào fāmíng.
The compass is an important ancient Chinese invention.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 指南针
火药是中国古代的四大 发明 之一。
Huǒyào shì Zhōngguó gǔdài de sì dà fāmíng zhī yī.
Gunpowder is one of ancient China's four great inventions.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 火药
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How is 发明 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 发明 (fāmíng, "Invention (invent)"), 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 发明 an HSK word?
Yes — 发明 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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