可惜 kěxī in a sentence
Regrettable (a pity - too bad - a shame)
可惜 (kěxī) means Regrettable (a pity - too bad - a shame). Below are 3 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
真 可惜 ，你昨天没来。
Zhēn kěxī, nǐ zuótiān méi lái.
What a pity you did not come yesterday.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 可惜
经理的话里有明显的暗示， 可惜 我当时没听懂。
Jīnglǐ de huà lǐ yǒu míngxiǎn de ànshì, kěxī wǒ dāngshí méi tīngdǒng.
There was a clear hint in the manager's words, but unfortunately I missed it at the time.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 暗示
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How is 可惜 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 可惜 (kěxī, "Regrettable (a pity - too bad - a shame)"), 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 可惜 an HSK word?
Yes — 可惜 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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The dictionary page for 可惜 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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